What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan
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 merc...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland
University of California Press
2019
Berkeley, CA : [2019] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437910706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Lists of Illustrations and Tables
- A Note to Readers
- Introduction
- 1. The Language and Contours of Familial Obligation in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Japan
- 2. Adoption and the Maintenance of the Early Modern Elite: Japan in the East Asian Context
- 3. Imagined Communities of the Living and the Dead: The Spread of the Ancestor-Venerating Stem Family in Tokugawa Japan
- 4. Name and Fame: Material Objects as Authority, Security, and Legacy
- 5. Outcastes and Ie : The Case of Two Beggar Boss Associations
- 6. Governing the Samurai Family in the Late Edo Period
- 7. Fashioning the Family: A Temple, a Daughter, and a Wardrobe
- 8. Social Norms versus Individual Desire: Conventions and Unconventionality in the History of Hirata Atsutane's Family
- 9. Family Trouble: Views from the Stage and a Merchant Archive
- 10. Ideal Families in Crisis: Official and Fictional Archetypes at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
- Appendix Suggestions for Further Reading
- Contributors
- Index
