Bones of Contention
Bones of Contention
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争论的焦点
DOI：
10.21313/hawaii/9780824836269.001.0001
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
B. Ambros
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作者：
B. Ambros
自20世纪90年代以来，日本宠物产业已经发展到万亿日元的规模，据估计，宠物的数量超过了15岁以下儿童的数量。日本宠物殡仪业有6000至8000家企业，其中包括900多家宠物墓地。其中约120家由佛教寺庙经营，佛教为宠物举行的殡仪仪式已成为一种制度化的做法。在《争论的骨头》一书中，芭芭拉·安布罗斯调查了是什么宗教和智力传统将动物塑造成宗教仪式的主题，以及宠物是如何被纳入或排除在当代日本的领地景观中的。宠物殡仪馆仪式是当代日本宗教持续变化的象征。单身家庭和核心家庭的增加，男女婚姻的延迟，出生率的下降和社会的老龄化，20世纪80年代的神秘繁荣，90年代的宠物繁荣，1995年奥姆·辛里基事件后的反宗教反弹--所有这些和更多的因素都促成了日本有争议的宠物停尸仪式的历史。安布罗斯利用这段历史阐明了一些重要的问题，比如：谁(或什么)算得上家庭成员？国家应该承认哪些做法是宗教的，从而在财政和法律上加以保护？饲养、溺爱或爱护一只动物是轻浮还是自私的行为？人类和宠物应该葬在一起吗？人们如何调和失去宠物后深深的个人悲痛，以及他们如何想象宠物的来世？归根结底，动物在日本的地位如何？这是一本关于日本人对宠物和其他动物的感受和想法的书，反过来，宠物和他们的人必须告诉我们今天日本的生死。
Since the 1990s the Japanese pet industry has grown to a trillion-yen business and estimates place the number of pets above the number of children under the age of fifteen. There are between 6,000 to 8,000 businesses in the Japanese pet funeral industry, including more than 900 pet cemeteries. Of these about 120 are operated by Buddhist temples, and Buddhist mortuary rites for pets have become an institutionalised practice. In Bones of Contention , Barbara Ambros investigates what religious and intellectual traditions constructed animals as subjects of religious rituals and how pets have been included or excluded in the necral landscapes of contemporary Japan. Pet mortuary rites are emblems of the ongoing changes in contemporary Japanese religions. The increase in single and nuclear-family households, marriage delays for both males and females, the falling birthrate and graying of society, the occult boom of the 1980s, the pet boom of the 1990s, the anti-religious backlash in the wake of the 1995 Aum Shinriky incident--all of these and more have contributed to Japan's contested history of pet mortuary rites. Ambros uses this history to shed light on important questions such as: Who (or what) counts as a family member? What kinds of practices should the state recognise as religious and thus protect financially and legally? Is it frivolous or selfish to keep, pamper, or love an animal? Should humans and pets be buried together? How do people reconcile the deeply personal grief that follows the loss of a pet and how do they imagine the afterlife of pets? And ultimately, what is the status of animals in Japan? Bones of Contention is a book about how Japanese people feel and think about pets and other kinds of animals and, in turn, what pets and their people have to tell us about life and death in Japan today.