UID:
almahu_9949863596402882
Format:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520974135
Content:
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603-1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status--from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant--but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. These factors led the majority to form stem families, which are a focus of this volume. The essays in this book draw on rich sources--population registers, legal documents, personal archives, and popular literature--to combine accounts of collective practices (such as the adoption of heirs) with intimate portraits of individual actors (such as a murderous wife). They highlight the variety and adaptability of households that, while shaped by a shared social order, do not conform to any stereotypical version of a Japanese family.
Note:
Cover -- Luminos -- Subvention page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- A Note to Readers -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part One. Norms: Stem Structures and Practices -- 1. The Language and Contours of -Familial Obligation in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Japan -- Notes -- List of References -- 2. Adoption and the Maintenance of the Early Modern Elite -- Notes -- References -- 3. Imagined Communities of the Living and the Dead -- Notes -- References -- 4. Name and Fame -- Notes -- References -- 5. Outcastes and Ie -- Notes -- References -- Part Two Case Studies: Stem Adaptations and Threats -- 6. Governing the Samurai Family in the Late Edo Period -- Notes -- References -- 7. Fashioning the Family -- Notes -- References -- 8. Social Norms versus Individual Desire -- Notes -- References -- 9. Family Trouble -- Notes -- References -- 10. Ideal Families in Crisis -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Berry, Mary Elizabeth What Is a Family? Berkeley : University of California Press,c2019 ISBN 9780520316089
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
