The Anthropological Study of Life After Death
and What it Can Tell us About the United States, Japan, and China Today
and What it Can Tell us About the United States, Japan, and China Today
일시: 2023. 10. 30. 월 16:00-17:30
장소: 아시아연구소 101동 406호
문의: anthrobk21plus@snu.ac.kr
Abstract: This talk, based on my recent book, Senses of Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China, first examines how the anthropological study of life after death can be done, and why it is important. It then discusses how in the contemporary developed world, senses of life after death have changed from being collective and public to becoming individualized and private. I discuss the United States, Japan, and China, exploring how views of interviewees in the three societies about life after death provide contrasting windows into how these three societies are morally constructed in this life before death. And I examine the larger existential implications of the fact that many human beings are losing their senses of having any significance beyond their worldly lifespan.
