Death in the Early Twenty-first Century Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites /

Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, me...

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Other Authors: Boret, Sébastien Penmellen. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Long, Susan Orpett. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kan, Sergei. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52365-1
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile) -- 3. Quelling the “Unquiet Dead”: Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR -- 4. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China -- 5. Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin -- 6. For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old: Death Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda -- 7. Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work -- 8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan -- 9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States. 
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