04434nam 22006972a 450 991049595550332120230828223927.00-585-13144-9(CKB)111004366715220(MH)006495533-8(SSID)ssj0000259933(PQKBManifestationID)12044863(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259933(PQKBWorkID)10187267(PQKB)10609038(EXLCZ)9911100436671522019950912d1996 ub 0engtxtccrTokugawa village practiceclass, status, power, law /Herman Ooms[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Press19961 online resource (xviii, 424 p. )maps ;"A Philip E. Lilienhal book."0-520-20209-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. "Mountains of Resentment": One Woman's Struggle Against Tokugawa Authority -- 2. Class Politics -- 3. Status Power -- 4. Village Autonomy -- 5. Status and State Racism: From Kawata to Eta -- 6. The Tokugawa Juridical Field and the Power of Law -- App. 1. Settlement of a Dispute Between Kumi Heads and Small Peasants, 1760 (Iribuse, Kita-Saku District, Shinano) -- App. 2. Goningumi Rules, 1640 (Shimo-Sakurai, Kita-Saku District, Shinano) -- App. 3. Goningumi Rules, 1662 (Shimo-Sakurai, Kita-Saku District, Shinano) -- App. 4. Regulations for the Villages of All Provinces -- The Keian Edict, 1649 (and 1665) -- App. 5. Regulations for Outcastes in Various Jurisdictions in Shinano.In contrast to Japanese citizens today, villagers in the Tokugawa period (seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries) frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts, leaving a vast but hitherto untapped record of power struggles between villagers and the network of administrators above them. Through colorfully narrated and skillfully analyzed case studies of their lawsuits and petitions, Herman Ooms traces the evolution of class and status conflicts in villages during this feudal era. Inspired by the work of Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu, the author links detailed village analysis to a broader discussion of societal power fields and juridical domains.Opening with an angry woman's lifelong struggle against village authority, Ooms's study examines how obscure historical actors, local elites, commoners, women, and outcastes manipulated the distinctions of class and status to their own advantage. The case studies offer a penetrating view of legal practice, including the position of women, inheritance customs, and particular forms of village justice. In a significant contribution to the legal history of outcaste populations, Ooms also studies the origins of discrimination against the ancestors of the burakumin population, a group that even now is struggling for equality in Japanese society.Tokugawa village practiceSocial classesJapanHistoryVillagesJapanHistoryVillagesLaw and legislationJapanHistorySocial classesJapanHistoryVillagesJapanHistoryVillagesHistoryLaw and legislationJapanSociology & Social HistoryHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCSocial ConditionsHILCCJapanSocial conditions1600-1868JapanPolitics and government1600-1868History.fastSocial classesHistory.VillagesHistory.VillagesLaw and legislationHistory.Social classesHistory.VillagesHistory.VillagesHistoryLaw and legislationSociology & Social HistorySocial SciencesSocial Conditions306/.0952Ooms Herman641732DLCDLCBOOK9910495955503321Tokugawa village practice2864315UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress