ISBN:
9780520272439
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (573 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Series Statement:
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Ser v.25
Series Statement:
Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes 25
Parallel Title:
Print version Mabiki : Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950
DDC:
304.66809520903
Keywords:
Fertility, human ; Japan ; History
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Infanticide ; Japan ; History
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Japan ; Population ; History
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Japan ; Social life and customs ; 1600-1868
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Japan
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Bevölkerungswachstum
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Kindestötung
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Geschichte 1660-1950
Abstract:
This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and governments offered to pay their subjects to have more children. In these pages, the long conflict over the meaning of infanticide comes to life once again. Those who killed babies saw themselves as responsible parents to their chosen children. Those who opposed infanticide redrew the boundaries of h
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Conventions; 1. Introduction: Contested Worldviews and a Demographic Revolution; Eastern Japan; Unlocking Fertility Histories; A Reverse Fertility Transition; Fertility: A Special Definition; The Meanings of Infanticide; The Case for a Regional Perspective; Discourse and Demography; Part I. The Culture of Low Fertility, ca. 1660-1790; 2. Three Cultures of Family Planning; The Geography of Infanticide Countermeasures; Traces in the Demographic Record; The Changing Geography of Infanticide
Description / Table of Contents:
Three Regimes of Demographic Moderation: Infanticide, Antlion Cities, and EmigrationA Multicultural Archipelago; 3. Humans, Animals, and Newborn Children; Of Bugs and Babies; Vengeful Spirits and Liminal Souls; The Long Road to Human Status; The Tolerance of Priests and Doctors; Shadows of Doubt, Traces of Guilt; Animal Spirits; Multiplying like Birds and Beasts; 4. Infanticide and Immortality: The Logic of the Stem Household; The Laws of Disinheritance; Imagined Communities of the Dead, the Living, and the Unborn; Grandparents and the Decision to Raise or Return; Mabiki as Filial Piety
Description / Table of Contents:
5. The Material and Moral Economy of InfanticideA Short Historiography of Poverty and Infanticide; Rates of Fertility and Infanticide Stratified by Landholdings; Poverty and Subsistence Crises; The Conflict between Production and Reproduction; Children's Labor and the Weakness of Parental Control; Consumption and the Moral Economy of Childrearing; Numeracy, Planning, and a Fertility Norm; 6. The Logic of Infant Selection; Gendered Work, Succession Plans, and the Perfect Balance of Boys and Girls; Decoding the Pattern of the Future; The Numerology of Personal Time: Sex Divination and Yakudoshi
Description / Table of Contents:
Tsunoda Tozaemon's DiaryHoroscopes and the Cosmic Pattern of Time; Folk Beliefs and Expert Knowledge; Monstrous Births; Fate Outfoxed; The Advantages of Child Spacing; 7. The Ghosts of Missing Children: Four Approaches to Estimating the Rate of Infanticide; Edo-Period Statements of the Rate of Infanticide; Missing Girls and Missing Boys; A Monte Carlo Simulation; The Balance of Abortions and Infanticides; The Contraception Puzzle; The Stillbirth Statistics of Imperial Japan; Ten Million Children; Part II. Redefining Reproduction: The Long Retreat of Infanticide, ca. 1790-1950
Description / Table of Contents:
8. Infanticide and ExtinctionThe Depopulation Crisis of the Late Eighteenth Century; Thinking Beyond an Heir and a Spare; A New Flowering of Branches; A New Vision of Family Life; 9. "Inferior Even to Animals": Moral Suasion and the Boundaries of Humanity; Animal Analogies and the Inhumanity of Infanticide; Buddhist Hells; Infants as Humans; The Scale of the Suasion Effort; Gender and the Power of the Dehumanized Parent; 10. Subsidies and Surveillance; How Subsidies and Surveillance Came to Be Expected Features of Good Governance; The Finances of Benevolence; The Scale of the Subsidies
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Pregnancy Surveillance
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