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Mabiki : infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950
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Title
Mabiki : infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 / Fabian Drixler.
ISBN
9780520272439 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0520272439 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780520953611 (ebook)
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Physical Description
xvii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 11, 2013
Series
Asia: local studies/global themes ; 25
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-395) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
A note on conventions
Introduction : contested worldviews and a demographic revolution
The culture of low fertility, ca. 1660/1790
Three cultures of family planning
Humans, animals, and newborn children
Infanticide and immortality : the logic of the stem household
The material and moral economy of infanticide
The logic of infant selection
The ghosts of missing children : four approaches to estimating the rate of infanticide
Redefining reproduction : the long retreat of infanticide, ca. 1790/1950
Infanticide and extinction
"Inferior even to animals" : moral suasion and the boundaries of humanity
Subsidies and surveillance
Even a strong castle cannot be defended without soldiers : infanticide and national security
Infanticide and the geography of civilization
Epilogue : infanticide in the shadows of the modern state
Conclusion
Appendix 1. The own-children method and its mortality assumptions
Appendix 2. Sampling biases, sources of error, and the characteristics of the ten provinces dataset
Appendix 3. The villages of the ten provinces dataset
Appendix 4. Total fertility rates in the districts of the ten provinces
Appendix 5. Regional infanticide reputations
Appendix 6. Scrolls and votive tablets with infanticide scenes
Appendix 7. Childrearing subsidies and pregnancy surveillance by domain
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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