Mabiki : infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 /
This is the story of a society reversing deeply-held worldviews and revolutionising its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children, resulting in shrinking villages and dwindling domain headcounts. In eastern Japan, population growth resumed in the nin...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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| ISBN: | 9780520953611 0520953614 1299557295 9781299557291 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : contested worldviews and a demographic revolution
- The culture of low fertility, ca. 1660/1950
- Three cultures of family planning
- Humans, animals, and newborn children
- Infanticide and immortality : the logic of the stem household
- The material and moral economy of infanticide
- The logic of infant selection
- The ghosts of missing children : four approaches to estimating the rate of infanticide
- Redefining reproduction : the long retreat of infanticide, ca. 1790/1950
- Infanticide and extinction
- "Inferior even to animals" : moral suasion and the boundaries of humanity
- Subsidies and surveillance
- Even a strong castle cannot be defended without soldiers : infanticide and national security
- Infanticide and the geography of civilization
- Epilogue : infanticide in the shadows of the modern state
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. The own-children method and its mortality assumptions
- Appendix 2. Sampling biases, sources of error, and the characteristics of the ten
- Provinces dataset
- Appendix 3. The villages of the ten provinces dataset
- Appendix 4. Total fertility rates in the districts of the ten provinces
- Appendix 5. Infanticide reputations
- Appendix 6. Scrolls and votive tablets with infanticide scenes
- Appendix 7. Childrearing subsidies and pregnancy surveillance by domain.