Baksheev, E.S. Two-stage burial ritualism in traditional societies as a historicalcultural problem (an example of Japan, Okinawa, China and other cultures of the Asian-Pacific Region).

Abstract: The article explains the concept of “two-stage burial ritualism”; based on the example of Japan, Okinawa, China and other cultures of the Asian-Pacific Region the phenomenon of such ritual in traditional societies is considered as the historical-cultural problem. It is shown that in these societies, body and its remains are manipulated in a two-stage process of funeral rites, a symbol of their cultural systems.

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