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The Practice of Concern

The Practice of Concern Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan - Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

Having conducted research during the second half of the 1990s, Traphagan (Asian studies, U. of Texas-Austin) explores the symbols and practices that Japanese use to enter and experience old age. The elderly, he explains, are the people primarily charged with ritual performance, and with maintaining the collective well-being, through ritual, of thei

Book information

ISBN: 9780890894064
Publisher: Carolina Academic
Imprint: Carolina Academic
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.260952
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 229
Weight: 340g
Height: 209mm
Width: 139mm
Spine width: 15mm