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1 online resource |
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Asia: local studies/global themes ; 25 |
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 25
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| Contents |
Introduction : contested worldviews and a demographic revolution -- The culture of low fertility, ca. 1660/1950 -- 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. Infanticide reputations -- Appendix 6. Scrolls and votive tablets with infanticide scenes -- Appendix 7. Childrearing subsidies and pregnancy surveillance by domain |
| Summary |
This is the story of a society reversing deeply-held worldviews and revolutionising its demography. In parts of eighteenth-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 nineteenth 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 |
| Analysis |
18th century japan |
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19th century japan |
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anthropology ethnography |
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asian culture |
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asian history |
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books for history lovers |
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child murder |
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demography studies |
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discussion books |
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east japan setting |
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easy to read |
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educational books |
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evolution of japanese society |
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history |
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infanticide |
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interesting books |
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japanese history |
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learning while reading |
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leisure reads |
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nonfiction |
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over population in japan |
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population control in japan |
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population growth |
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restrictions on child birth |
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reverse fertility |
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social history in japan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fertility, Human -- Japan -- History
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Infanticide -- Japan -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Fertility, Human
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Infanticide
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Manners and customs
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Population
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Population -- History
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Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069582
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520953611 |
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0520953614 |
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1299557295 |
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9781299557291 |
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