Mabiki [electronic resource] : infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 / Fabian Drixler.

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.

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