Necropolitics of the Ordinary (Record no. 66608)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780295753331
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 306.90 TOU
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Toulson, Ruth E.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Necropolitics of the Ordinary
Remainder of title : Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore.
Statement of responsibility, etc /Ruth E. Toulson.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Singapore
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of Washington Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2024.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi, 178p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2174
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, forcing people to exhume their family members. In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, anthropologist and trained mortician Ruth E. Toulson demonstrates this as part of a larger shift to transform a Daoist-infused obsession with ancestors into a sterile, more easily controlled "Protestant" Buddhism. Further, in a context where the dead remain central to family life, forced exhumation tears the social fabric, turning ancestors into ghosts. Using death ritual and grieving as interrogative lenses, Toulson explores the scope of and resistance to state power over the dead, laying bare the legacies of colonialism and consequences of whirlwind capitalist development. In doing so, she offers a new anthropology of death, one both more personal and politicized. Written in accessible prose rich with ethnographic detail, the book is suitable for undergraduate teaching in anthropology, Asian studies, religious studies, sociology, and history.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Necropolitics
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Death and Grieving
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political contestation
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ruth E. Toulson
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 11/11/2025 Brijwasi Book Distributors 2174.00 2 3 306.90 TOU 31183 16/11/2026 14/10/2026 14/10/2026 11/11/2025 Books
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