Description: Japanese Tree Burial : Ecology, kinship and the culture of death, Hardcover by Boret, Sébastien Penmellen, ISBN 0415517060, ISBN-13 9780415517065, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head priest of a Zen Buddhist temple in northern Japan. Instead of a conventional family gravestone, perpetuating the continuity of a household and its identity, tree burial uses vast woodlands as cemeteries, with each burial spot marked by a tree and a small wooden tablet inscribed with the name of the deceased. Tree burial is gaining popularity, and is a highly-effective means of promoting the rehabilitation of Japanese forestland critically damaged by post-war government mismanagement. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the phenomenon of tree burial, tracing its development, discussing the factors which motivate Japanese people to choose tree burial, and examining the impact of tree burial on traditional views of death, memorialisation, and the afterlife. The author argues that non-traditional, non-ancestral modes of burial have become a means of negotiating new social orders and that this symbiosis of environmentalism and memorialisation corroborates the idea that graveyards are not only places for the containment of human remains and the memorialisation of the dead, but spaces where people (re)construct, challenge, and find new senses of belonging to the wider society in which they live. Throughout, th demonstrates how the new practice fits with developing ideas of ecology, with the individual’s corporality nourishing the earth and thus re-entering the cycle of life in nature.
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Book Title: Japanese Tree Burial : Ecology, kinship and the culture of death
Number of Pages: 222 Pages
Publication Name: Japanese Tree Burial : Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Ethnic Studies / General, Death & Dying, Plants / Trees, Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Regional Studies, Ecology, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Nature, Social Science
Author: Sébastien Penmellen Boret
Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
