Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University - Andrew Bernstein - Books - University of Hawai'i Press - 9780824828745 - January 31, 2006
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Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Annotated edition


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Following an overview of the early development of funerary rituals in Japan, this work demonstrates how diverse premodern practices from different regions and social strata were homogenized with those generated by middle-class city dwellers. It also explores the conflict-filled process of remaking burial practices.


256 pages, 13 illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 31, 2006
ISBN13 9780824828745
Publishers University of Hawai'i Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 23 mm   ·   530 g

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