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

Abstract

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Conventions 1. Introduction: Contested Worldviews and a Demographic Revolution PART I. THE CULTURE OF LOW FERTILITY, CA. 1660--1790 2. Three Cultures of Family Planning 3. Humans, Animals, and Newborn Children 4. Infanticide and Immortality: The Logic of the Stem Household 5. The Material and Moral Economy of Infanticide 6. The Logic of Infant Selection 7. The Ghosts of Missing Children: Four Approaches to Estimating the Rate of Infanticide PART II. REDEFINING REPRODUCTION: THE LONG RETREAT OF INFANTICIDE, CA. 1790--1950 8. Infanticide and Extinction 9. Inferior Even to Animals: Moral Suasion and the Boundaries of Humanity 10. Subsidies and Surveillance 11. Even a Strong Castle Cannot be Defended without Soldiers: Infanticide and National Security 12. Infanticide and the Geography of Civilization 13. Epilogue: Infanticide in the Shadows of the Modern State 14. 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 Notes Bibliography Index