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humanimalia-9978	Marran, Christine	Pets, Death, and Taxes: Review of Barbara Ambros, Bones of Contention: Animal and Religion in Contemporary Japan	2013	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1700	53	31	Animal memorial rites may have emerged in the premodern period, but it is with the relatively recent commodification of animals that animal memorial rites began to pursue a “ritualized perfection in the face of the mechanized and often bloody realities of modernity” (52). The endorsements adorning the back of Barbara Ambros’ enticing monograph describe Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan as a study of pet memorial rites in the archipelago, but the book is about much more than that.	cache/humanimalia-9978.pdf	txt/humanimalia-9978.txt