The practice of concern
Subtitle: ritual, well-being, and aging in rural Japan
By: John W. Traphagan.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Description: "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 family, friends, the community, and the nation is a central symbolic element in religious ritual practice."--Jacket.