05753nam 2201009 a 450 991081949190332120240313210341.00-520-95361-410.1525/9780520953611(CKB)2670000000355202(EBL)1184539(SSID)ssj0000873672(PQKBManifestationID)11435839(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873672(PQKBWorkID)10877646(PQKB)10520941(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155594(OCoLC)844362766(MiAaPQ)EBC1184539(MdBmJHUP)muse30904(DE-B1597)520789(DE-B1597)9780520953611(Au-PeEL)EBL1184539(CaPaEBR)ebr10698372(CaONFJC)MIL486979(dli)HEB33913(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001090(EXLCZ)99267000000035520220150303d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrMabiki infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 /Fabian Drixler1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20131 online resource (440 p.)Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes ;25Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27243-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ILLUSTRATIONS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --A NOTE ON CONVENTIONS --1. Introduction. Contested Worldviews and a Demographic Revolution --2. Three Cultures of Family Planning --3. Humans, Animals, and Newborn Children --4. Infanticide and Immortality. The Logic of the Stem Household --5. The Material and Moral Economy of Infanticide --6. The Logic of Infant Selection --7. The Ghosts of Missing Children. Four Approaches to Estimating the Rate of Infanticide --8. Infanticide and Extinction --9. "Inferior Even to Animals". Moral Suasion and the Boundaries of Humanity --10. Subsidies and Surveillance --11. Even a Strong Castle Cannot Be Defended without Soldiers. Infanticide and National Security --12. Infanticide and the Geography of Civilization --13. Epilogue Infanticide in the Shadows of the Modern State --14. Conclusion --APPENDIX ONE. The Own-Children Method and Its Mortality Assumptions --APPENDIX TWO. Sampling Biases, Sources of Error, and the Characteristics of the Ten Provinces Dataset --APPENDIX THREE. The Villages in the Ten Provinces Dataset --APPENDIX FOUR --APPENDIX FIVE --APPENDIX SIX --APPENDIX SEVEN --NOTES --BIBLIOGRAPHY --IndexThis 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 humanity so as to encompass newborn infants and exclude those who would not raise them. In Eastern Japan, the focus of this book, population growth resumed in the nineteenth century. According to its village registers, more and more parents reared all their children. Others persisted in the old ways, leaving traces of hundreds of thousands of infanticides in the statistics of the modern Japanese state. Nonetheless, by 1925, total fertility rates approached six children per women in the very lands where raising four had once been considered profligate. This reverse fertility transition suggests that the demographic history of the world is more interesting than paradigms of unidirectional change would have us believe, and that the future of fertility and population growth may yet hold many surprises.Asia--local studies/global themes ;25.Infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950Fertility, humanJapanHistoryInfanticideJapanHistoryJapanPopulationHistoryJapanSocial life and customs1600-186818th century japan.19th century japan.anthropology ethnography.asian culture.asian history.books for history lovers.child murder.demography studies.discussion books.east japan setting.easy to read.educational books.evolution of japanese society.history.infanticide.interesting books.japanese history.learning while reading.leisure reads.nonfiction.over population in japan.population control in japan.population growth.restrictions on child birth.reverse fertility.social history in japan.Fertility, humanHistory.InfanticideHistory.304.6/6809520903Drixler Fabian Franz1978-1676053MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819491903321Mabiki4041969UNINA