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Becoming Bone Buddhas: Remaking Death in Contemporary Japan

In a contemporary Japan, inter-generational Buddhist systems of care for the dead have become increasingly unstable

Becoming Bone Buddhas: Remaking Death in Contemporary Japan

In a contemporary Japan described as socially atomised and secular, inter-generational Buddhist systems of care for the dead have become increasingly unstable. A talk by Dr Hannah Gould, cultural anthropologist