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Umfang: XVII, 417 S. : graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 978-0-520-27243-9 , 978-0-520-95361-1

Serie: Asia: local studies, global themes 25

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Geschichte , Soziologie

Schlagwort(e): Kindestötung ; Geburtenziffer ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xvii, 417 pages) : , illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

ISBN: 9780520953611 (ebook) :

Serie: Asia-- local studies/global themes ; 25

Inhalt: This is the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionising its demography. In parts of 18th century Japan, couples raised only two or three children, resulting in shrinking villages and dwindling domain headcounts. In Eastern Japan population growth resumed in the 19th century, with fertility rates approaching six children per woman. 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.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version ISBN 9780520272439

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (573 Seiten)

ISBN: 9780520272439

Serie: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes v.25

Inhalt: 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

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , Pregnancy Surveillance

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780520953611

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780520272439

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mabiki : Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Japan ; Bevölkerungswachstum ; Kindestötung ; Geschichte 1660-1950 ; Electronic books

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Umfang: 1 online resource (440 p.)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-520-95361-4

Serie: Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes ; 25

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , 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 , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-520-27243-9

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1525/9780520953611