LEADER 05756nam 2200997 a 450 001 9910786711903321 005 20230126210324.0 010 $a0-520-95361-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520953611 035 $a(CKB)2670000000355202 035 $a(EBL)1184539 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11435839 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10877646 035 $a(PQKB)10520941 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155594 035 $a(OCoLC)844362766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1184539 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30904 035 $a(DE-B1597)520789 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520953611 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1184539 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10698372 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL486979 035 $a(dli)HEB33913 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001090 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000355202 100 $a20150303d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMabiki$b[electronic resource] $einfanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 /$fFabian Drixler 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (440 p.) 225 1 $aAsia: Local Studies/Global Themes ;$v25 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-27243-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tA NOTE ON CONVENTIONS --$t1. Introduction. Contested Worldviews and a Demographic Revolution --$t2. Three Cultures of Family Planning --$t3. Humans, Animals, and Newborn Children --$t4. Infanticide and Immortality. The Logic of the Stem Household --$t5. The Material and Moral Economy of Infanticide --$t6. The Logic of Infant Selection --$t7. The Ghosts of Missing Children. Four Approaches to Estimating the Rate of Infanticide --$t8. Infanticide and Extinction --$t9. "Inferior Even to Animals". Moral Suasion and the Boundaries of Humanity --$t10. Subsidies and Surveillance --$t11. Even a Strong Castle Cannot Be Defended without Soldiers. Infanticide and National Security --$t12. Infanticide and the Geography of Civilization --$t13. Epilogue Infanticide in the Shadows of the Modern State --$t14. Conclusion --$tAPPENDIX ONE. The Own-Children Method and Its Mortality Assumptions --$tAPPENDIX TWO. Sampling Biases, Sources of Error, and the Characteristics of the Ten Provinces Dataset --$tAPPENDIX THREE. The Villages in the Ten Provinces Dataset --$tAPPENDIX FOUR --$tAPPENDIX FIVE --$tAPPENDIX SIX --$tAPPENDIX SEVEN --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tIndex 330 $aThis book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and governments offered to pay their subjects to have more children. In these pages, the long conflict over the meaning of infanticide comes to life once again. Those who killed babies saw themselves as responsible parents to their chosen children. Those who opposed infanticide redrew the boundaries of humanity so as to encompass newborn infants and exclude those who would not raise them. In Eastern Japan, the focus of this book, population growth resumed in the nineteenth century. According to its village registers, more and more parents reared all their children. Others persisted in the old ways, leaving traces of hundreds of thousands of infanticides in the statistics of the modern Japanese state. Nonetheless, by 1925, total fertility rates approached six children per women in the very lands where raising four had once been considered profligate. This reverse fertility transition suggests that the demographic history of the world is more interesting than paradigms of unidirectional change would have us believe, and that the future of fertility and population growth may yet hold many surprises. 410 0$aAsia--local studies/global themes ;$v25. 517 3 $aInfanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 606 $aFertility, human$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aInfanticide$zJapan$xHistory 607 $aJapan$xPopulation$xHistory 607 $aJapan$xSocial life and customs$y1600-1868 610 $a18th century japan. 610 $a19th century japan. 610 $aanthropology ethnography. 610 $aasian culture. 610 $aasian history. 610 $abooks for history lovers. 610 $achild murder. 610 $ademography studies. 610 $adiscussion books. 610 $aeast japan setting. 610 $aeasy to read. 610 $aeducational books. 610 $aevolution of japanese society. 610 $ahistory. 610 $ainfanticide. 610 $ainteresting books. 610 $ajapanese history. 610 $alearning while reading. 610 $aleisure reads. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $aover population in japan. 610 $apopulation control in japan. 610 $apopulation growth. 610 $arestrictions on child birth. 610 $areverse fertility. 610 $asocial history in japan. 615 0$aFertility, human$xHistory. 615 0$aInfanticide$xHistory. 676 $a304.6/6809520903 700 $aDrixler$b Fabian Franz$f1978-$01501465 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786711903321 996 $aMabiki$93728594 997 $aUNINA