Japanese tree burial : ecology, kinship and the culture of death

1. Introduction : questions for the anthropology of tree disposals

2. The birth of Japanese tree-burial : when life crisis meets environmental crisis

3. Kinship, demographic and economic matters : renouncing the ancestral grave

4. Identities, memorialization and agency : 'people's own grave'

5. Bonds, nature workshops and collective memorials

6. Ecological immortality and ideas of the afterlife

7. Conclusions : towards a liberalization of death in Japan?