Mary Elizabeth Berry What Is a Family? (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is a Family?Condition: NewEAN: 9780520316089ISBN: 9780520316089Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/17/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 454gContributor: Marcia Yonemoto (Edited by), Mary Elizabeth Berry (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Answers from Early Modern JapanISBN-10: 0520316088Description: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603–1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status—from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant—but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. These factors led the majority to form stem families, which are a focus of this volume. The essays in this book draw on rich sources—population registers, legal documents, personal archives, and popular literature—to combine accounts of collective practices (such as the adoption of heirs) with intimate portraits of individual actors (such as a murderous wife). They highlight the variety and adaptability of households that, while shaped by a shared social order, do not conform to any stereotypical version of a Japanese family.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryAuthor: Mary Elizabeth BerryRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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