When Death Falls Apart (Record no. 66607)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780226829012
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Brijwasi Book Distributors
Distributor address H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi
Bill Number BW/000326
Bill Date 4/11/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 393.09 GOU
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gould, Hannah.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title When Death Falls Apart
Remainder of title : Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Hannah Gould.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of Chicago
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2023.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 195p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1863
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, “the grave of the graves” (o-haka no haka) houses acres of unwanted headstones—the material remains of Japan’s discarded death rites. In the past, the Japanese dead became venerated ancestors through sustained ritual offerings at graves and at butsudan, Buddhist altars installed inside the home. But in twenty-first-century Japan, this intergenerational system of care is rapidly collapsing.<br/><br/>In noisy carpentry studios, flashy funeral-goods showrooms, neglected cemeteries, and cramped kitchens where women prepare memorial feasts, Hannah Gould analyzes the lifecycle of butsudan, illuminating how they are made, circulate through religious and funerary economies, mediate intimate exchanges between the living and the dead, and—as the population ages, families disperse, and fewer homes have space for large lacquer cabinets—eventually fall into disuse. What happens, she asks, when a funerary technology becomes obsolete? And what will take its place? Gould examines new products better suited to urban apartments: miniature urns and sleek altars inspired by Scandinavian design, even reliquary jewelry. She visits an automated columbarium and considers new ritual practices that embrace impermanence. At an industry expo, she takes on the role of “demonstration corpse.” Throughout, Gould invites us to rethink memorialization and describes a distinct form of Japanese necrosociality, one based on material exchanges that seek to both nurture the dead and disentangle them from the world of the living.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Necromaterial Traditions
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Contemporary Japan
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Death Falls
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Personal name Hannah Gould
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Koha item type Books
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 11/11/2025 Brijwasi Book Distributors 1863.00 2 3 393.09 GOU 31182 16/11/2026 14/10/2026 14/10/2026 11/11/2025 Books
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