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1. Japanese Tree Burial

   Innovation, Ecology and the Culture of Death

   By Sebastien Boret

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head priest of a Zen Buddhist temple in northern Japan. Instead of a conventional family gravestone, perpetuating the continuity of a household and its identity, tree burial uses vast...

   To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge