Nature’s Embrace Now in Paperback

Nature's Embrace
Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites, by Satsuki Kawano, is now available in paperback. The work offers insightful discussion on the rise of new death rites and ideologies, older adults’ views of their death rites, and Japan’s changing society through the eyes of aging urbanites. It will engage a wide range of readers interested in death and culture, mortuary ritual, and changes in age relations in postindustrial societies.

March 2011 / ISBN 978-0-8248-3413-5 / $27.00 (PAPER)