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      Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies

      This volume provides a picture of how elder care is defined at a time when ageing is becoming increasingly defined as a social problem.

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      Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan

      Susan Orpett Long

      From the deathbed to the commuter railway station, from the marriage market to the fish market, from the baseball field to the grave, this volume explores the diversity of contemporary…

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      Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life

      Susan Orpett Long

      Represents a different perspective on end-of-life decision-making, arguing that culture makes a difference in a matter of personal choice, but not as a checklist of customs or as the source…

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      Family Change and the Life Course in Japan

      Susan Orpett Long

      Prepared for a conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council –P. [iii].

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      Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies

      This volume provides a broader picture of how elder care is defined at a time when ageing is becoming increasingly defined as a social problem. It is a valuable source…

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      Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty

      What are people’s life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to under- standing Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively…

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      Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty

      This book is designed as an undergraduate course reader offering up-to-date ethnographic research on contemporary Japan to enrich students learning. Based on data collected during the 2000s by eleven well…

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      Death in the Early Twenty-first Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites

      In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty…

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      Death in the Early Twenty-first Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites

      In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty…

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