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dc.contributor.editorBerry, Mary Elizabeth
dc.contributor.editorYonemoto, Marcia
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-19 15:51:35
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:07:07Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:07:07Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1005410
dc.identifierOCN: 1135848727en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45812
dc.description.abstractWhat is a family? The essays gathered here explore disparate family histories in early modern Japan, attending variously to the samurai elite, agrarian villagers, urban merchants, communities of outcastes, and the circles surrounding priests, artists, and scholars. They draw on diverse sources—from population registers and legal documents to personal letters and diaries, from genealogies and necrologies to popular fiction and drama. And while some examine collective practices (the adoption of heirs, the veneration of ancestors), others look intimately at individual actors (a runaway daughter, a murderous wife). What unites these stories is the political and social order of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), which structured all lives. Families navigated its constraints differently, but the circumstances that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. Those constraints led the majority to form stem families, the focus of this volume. The essays nonetheless depart from essentialist and nationalist narratives to emphasize that family formation was a dynamic process mediated by particular pressures.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.otherearly modern Japan
dc.subject.otherTokugawa
dc.subject.otherfamily
dc.subject.otherstem family
dc.subject.othermarriage
dc.subject.othersuccession
dc.subject.otherdemography
dc.subject.otherinheritance
dc.subject.otherpopulation
dc.subject.otherfiction
dc.subject.otherdrama
dc.titleWhat Is a Family?
dc.title.alternativeAnswers from Early Modern Japan
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.77
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isbn9780520316089
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.pages291
oapen.place.publicationOakland
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/6c0f9ce4-22a2-4c4e-a835-f601bc83a3c8
oapen.identifier.isbn9780520974135
oapen.identifier.ocn1135848727


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