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Mabiki : infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 / / Fabian Drixler



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Autore: Drixler Fabian Franz <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mabiki : infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 / / Fabian Drixler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (440 p.)
Disciplina: 304.6/6809520903
Soggetto topico: Fertility, human - Japan - History
Infanticide - Japan - History
Soggetto geografico: Japan Population History
Japan Social life and customs 1600-1868
Soggetto non controllato: 18th 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950
Titolo autorizzato: Mabiki  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95361-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819491903321
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Serie: Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 25.