Reproductive Strategies Among Tokugawa Japanese Villagers

授予斯坦福大学的奖项将使PI能够分析 生育行为与家庭过程的相互作用 日本德川政权时期（1702-1872）。 数据将 从异常完整的家庭记录中提取， 约10 000人，4 200名新生儿和1 000名 夫妻单位 该项目的总体目标是 完成一个全面的多变量分析家庭 再生过程（使用对数线性列联表模型） 依靠历史民族志和重建 环境条件，为分析设计提供信息， 来帮助解释结果。 杀婴的做法是 在整个研究期间，这些村庄的家庭。 这项研究将检验这样一个假设：总体而言， 杀婴是计划生育的一种形式， 公司STEM家族的长期利益。 这项研究将有助于人口人类学， 历史人类学和家庭亲属研究。 它将 提供有关妇女地位的重要理论材料 在农业家庭，并可能有助于阐明被动 今天在第三世界发现的谋杀。

This award to Stanford University will allow the PI to analyze the interaction between reproductive behavior and family process in Japan during the Tokugawa regime (1702-1872). The data will be drawn from unusually complete household records for eight villages, covering some 10,000 persons, 4,200 births and 1,000 conjugal units. The general objectives of the project are to complete a full-scale multivariate analysis of family reproductive process (using log-linear contingency table models) relying on historical ethnography and a reconstruction of environmental conditions both to inform the analytical design and to help interpret the results. Infanticide was practiced by households in these villages throughout the period of study. This research will test the hypothesis that in general infanticide was a form of family planning designed to serve the long run interests of the corporate stem family. This research will contribute to demographic anthropology, historical anthropology and family-kinship studies. It will provide important theoretical material about the status of women in agrarian families and may help illuminate the passive infanticide found in the Third World today.