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245 10 a| Necropolitics of the ordinaryh| [electronic resource] :b| death and grieving in contemporary Singapore /c| Ruth E. Toulson.;

246 30 a| Death and grieving in contemporary Singapore;

260 a| Seattle :b| University of Washington Press,c| [2024];

300 a| xvi, 178 pagesb| illustrationsc| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.;

505 0 a| To Dig for the Dead -- The Modern State of Death -- The Gift of a Corpse -- Of Ancestors and Mourning Gowns -- Fractured Sentiment -- Grave Goods -- A State of Grief -- Return to Bukit Brown.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, anthropologist and trained mortician Ruth Toulson documents a revolution in the way death is ritualized and grieved. Its context is the crowded city-state of Singapore, where cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the Singaporean government has ordered the destruction of every burial ground but one, forcing families to exhume the remains of ancestors. Written in accessible prose and with rich ethnographic detail, the book is suitable for undergraduate teaching in anthropology, Asian studies, religious studies, death studies, sociology, and history"-- Provided by publisher.;

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Necropolitics of the ordinary death and grieving in contemporary Singapore / Ruth E. Toulson.

Author/creator	Toulson, Ruth E.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2024]
Description	xvi, 178 pages illustrations 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Funeral rites and ceremonies--Political aspects. --Singapore. Death care industry--Political aspects. --Singapore. Cemeteries--Government policy. --Singapore. Mourning customs--Singapore. Exhumation--Singapore. Land use--Government policy. --Singapore. Chinese--Singapore. --Social life and customs. --21st century. Singapore--Social life and customs. --21st century.

Portion of title	Death and grieving in contemporary Singapore
Physical medium	illustrations
Contents	To Dig for the Dead -- The Modern State of Death -- The Gift of a Corpse -- Of Ancestors and Mourning Gowns -- Fractured Sentiment -- Grave Goods -- A State of Grief -- Return to Bukit Brown.
Abstract	"In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, anthropologist and trained mortician Ruth Toulson documents a revolution in the way death is ritualized and grieved. Its context is the crowded city-state of Singapore, where cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the Singaporean government has ordered the destruction of every burial ground but one, forcing families to exhume the remains of ancestors. Written in accessible prose and with rich ethnographic detail, the book is suitable for undergraduate teaching in anthropology, Asian studies, religious studies, death studies, sociology, and history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2024023396
ISBN	9780295753324 hardcover
ISBN	9780295753331 paperback
ISBN	ebook

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