The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan

by John W. Traphagan and Pamela J. Stewart

The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan explores ideas and practices related to religious ritual and health among older people in northern Japan. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Traphagan considers various forms of ritual performance and contextualizes these in terms of private and public spheres of activity. An important theme of the book is that for Japanese the expression of concern about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089089406X
• ISBN13: 9780890894064
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.