Greeting the Dead: Managing Solitary Existence in Japan
Anne Allison (Anthropology, Duke University) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At a moment when the Japanese population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are 65 or older, and reports of “lonely death”...