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What is a family? : answers from early modern Japan

Berry, Mary Elizabeth, 1947- editor, Yonemoto, Marcia, 1964- editor

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\"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 family unlike another were framed, then as now, by the prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources that shaped all lives. The selected family accounts in this collection of essays focus on a wide variety of individuals ranging from military elite to agrarian villagers and communities of outcastes. Each chapter incorporates diverse sources--from population registers and legal documents to personal letters and diaries--while combining wide accounts of collective practices with intimate portraits of individual actors\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Families Japan History Edo period, 1600-1868. / Japan Social life and customs 1600-1868. / Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
• ISBN: 9780520316089, 0520316088

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ681.W43 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE