When Death Falls ApartThrough an ethnographic study inside Japans Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials. Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, the grave of the graves (o haka no haka) houses the material remains of Japans discarded death rites. In the past, the Japanese dead would be transformed into ancestors through years of ritual offerings at graves and