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

Fabian Franz Drixler c2013 © University of California Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780520272439 (hardcover)
  • 9780520953611 (ebook)
Subject
  • Asian: Northeast (Japan, Korea)
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

  • Stats

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page x)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • A Note on Conventions (page xvii)
  • 1. Introduction: Contested Worldviews and a Demographic Revolution (page 1)
  • PART I. THE CULTURE OF LOW FERTILITY, CA. 1660-1790
  • 2. Three Cultures of Family Planning (page 25)
  • 3. Humans, Animals, and Newborn Children (page 47)
  • 4. Infanticide and Immortality: The Logic of the Stem Household (page 61)
  • 5. The Material and Moral Economy of Infanticide (page 69)
  • 6. The Logic of Infant Selection (page 91)
  • 7. The Ghosts of Missing Children: Four Approaches to Estimating the Rate of Infanticide (page 109)
  • PART II. REDEFINING REPRODUCTION: THE LONG RETREAT OF INFANTICIDE, CA. 1790-1950
  • 8. Infanticide and Extinction (page 129)
  • 9. "Inferior Even to Animals": Moral Suasion and the Boundaries of Humanity (page 138)
  • 10. Subsidies and Surveillance (page 158)
  • 11. Even a Strong Castle Cannot Be Defended without Soldiers: Infanticide and National Security (page 183)
  • 12. Infanticide and the Geography of Civilization (page 194)
  • 13. Epilogue: Infanticide in the Shadows of the Modern State (page 208)
  • 14. Conclusion (page 232)
  • Appendix 1. The Own-Children Method and Its Morality Assumptions (page 245)
  • Appendix 2. Sampling Biases, Sources of Error, and the Characteristics of the Ten Provinces Dataset (page 253)
  • Appendix 3. The Villages of the Ten Provinces Dataset (page 261)
  • Appendix 4. Total Fertility Rates in the Districts of the Ten Provinces (page 276)
  • Appendix 5. Regional Infanticide Reputations (page 281)
  • Appendix 6. Scrolls and Votive Tablets with Infanticide Scenes (page 285)
  • Appendix 7. Childrearing Subsidies and Pregnancy Surveillance by Domain (page 287)
  • Notes (page 289)
  • Bibliography (page 353)
  • Index (page 397)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
Population 70.4 (2015): 815-817 http://www.jstor.org/stable/44135461
JIH 44.4 (2014): 567-568 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/537632
MN 70.1 (2015): 141-145 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/596319
HJAS 74.2 (2014): 385-392 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/578538
JJS 40.2 (2014): 383-387 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/549046
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