Vengeful Spirits or Loving Spiritual Companions?
Pet memorial rites gained currency in Japan in the late twentieth century. Beginning in the 1970s, Japan experienced an "occult boom," which was marked by increasing interest in paranormal phenomena, divination, and vengeful spirits. At the same time, Japanese society underwent dramatic demographic...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 35 - 68 |
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Nanzan University
2010
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