What Is a Family?

What 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...

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description What 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-370502025-07-31T12:40:43Z What Is a Family? Berry, Mary Elizabeth Yonemoto, Marcia early modern Japan Tokugawa family stem family marriage succession demography inheritance population fiction drama thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history What 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-09-19 15:51:35 2020-04-01T10:07:07Z 2019 book 1005410 OCN: 1135848727 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45812 9780520316089 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37050 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45812/1/what-is-a-family.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45812/1/what-is-a-family.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45812/1/what-is-a-family.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45812/1/what-is-a-family.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45812/1/what-is-a-family.pdf University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.77 10.1525/luminos.77 19856893-4bf2-4e3e-9137-c7692d64e4c1 9780520316089 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Luminos 291 Oakland open access
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