The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan
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The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan is an ethnographic study that explores how religious rituals and social practices shape experiences of health, care, and aging in a rural Japanese community.
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| The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan Context triple: [John Traphagan, notableWork, The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan]
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Habits of the Heart
Habits of the Heart is a widely influential sociological study of individualism and community in American life, co-authored by Robert N. Bellah and colleagues.
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Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community is a philosophical work by Roberto Esposito that critically rethinks the concept of community, emphasizing shared obligation, exposure, and vulnerability rather than identity or belonging.
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Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience
Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience is a feminist study that explores how women’s everyday labor and lived experiences shape their identities, political awareness, and social realities.
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Vita Activa and the Human Condition
"Vita Activa and the Human Condition" is a section of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical work *The Human Condition* that examines the active dimensions of human life—labor, work, and action—and their significance for politics and public life.
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The Experience of Activity
"The Experience of Activity" is a philosophical essay by William James that explores how our direct, lived sense of acting and exerting effort underpins his radical empiricist account of experience and reality.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan Target entity description: The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan is an ethnographic study that explores how religious rituals and social practices shape experiences of health, care, and aging in a rural Japanese community.
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A.
Habits of the Heart
Habits of the Heart is a widely influential sociological study of individualism and community in American life, co-authored by Robert N. Bellah and colleagues.
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B.
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community
Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community is a philosophical work by Roberto Esposito that critically rethinks the concept of community, emphasizing shared obligation, exposure, and vulnerability rather than identity or belonging.
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C.
Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience
Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience is a feminist study that explores how women’s everyday labor and lived experiences shape their identities, political awareness, and social realities.
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D.
Vita Activa and the Human Condition
"Vita Activa and the Human Condition" is a section of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical work *The Human Condition* that examines the active dimensions of human life—labor, work, and action—and their significance for politics and public life.
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E.
The Experience of Activity
"The Experience of Activity" is a philosophical essay by William James that explores how our direct, lived sense of acting and exerting effort underpins his radical empiricist account of experience and reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
book
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ethnography ⓘ |
| countryOfFocus | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| examines |
care practices for older adults
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relationship between religion and health ⓘ relationship between ritual and well-being ⓘ social dimensions of aging ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Japanese studies
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medical anthropology ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
experiences of aging
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experiences of care ⓘ experiences of health ⓘ religious rituals ⓘ social practices ⓘ |
| genre | anthropology ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
aging
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care ⓘ health ⓘ ritual ⓘ rural Japan ⓘ well-being ⓘ |
| placeOfSetting | rural Japan ⓘ |
| setting | rural community ⓘ |
| theoreticalApproach | ethnographic ⓘ |
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Referenced by (1)
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John Traphagan
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notableWork
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The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan
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