00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685675941122107071 Buklod 20230816162753.0 a gr| |11 | ta 230816s2013||||cauab gr b 001 0|eng 9780520272439 (hbk. : alk. paper) 17535219 DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng jpn 304.6/6809520903 23 HB 3651 D75 2013 Drixler, Fabian Franz 1978- Mabiki infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 Fabian Drixler. Berkeley University of California Press [2013] xvii, 417 pages illustrations, maps (B&W) 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Asia: local studies/global themes 25 Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-395) and index. 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. Fertility, human Japan History. Infanticide Japan History. Japan Population History. Japan Social life and customs 1600-1868. FO UPD DAC HB 3651 D75 2013 Book