What is a family? : answers from early modern Japan / edited by Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia Yonemoto.
"What Is a Family? explores stories of the Japanese family under the political and social order established by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868). This period showed variation in the ways that families navigated constraints and opportunities. But the circumstances and choices that made one fami...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia Yonemoto
- 1. The language and contours of familial obligation in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan / David Spafford
- 2. Adoption and the maintenance of the early modern elite : Japan in the East Asian context / Marcia Yonemoto
- 3. Imagined communities of the living and the dead : the spread of the ancestor-venerating stem family in Tokugawa Japan / Fabian Drixler
- 4. Name and fame : material objects as authority, security and legacy / Morgan Pitelka
- 5. Outcastes and Ie? : the case of two beggar guilds / Maren Ehlers
- 6. Governing the samurai family in the late Edo period / Luke Roberts
- 7. Fashioning the family : a temple, a daughter, and a wardrobe / Amy Stanley
- 8. Social norms versus individual desire : conventions an unconventionality in the history of Hirata Atsutane's family / Anne Walthall
- 9. Family trouble : views from the stage and a merchant archive / Mary Elizabeth Berry
- 10. Are all happy families alike? : reading the idealized family in print at the turn of the nineteenth century / David Atherton.