Reproductive Strategies Among Tokugawa Japanese Villagers

授予斯坦福大学的这一奖项将使PI能够分析德川政权(1702-1872)期间日本生殖行为和家庭过程之间的互动。数据将来自8个村庄异常完整的家庭记录，涵盖约10,000人、4,200名新生儿和1,000对夫妻单位。该项目的总体目标是依靠历史人种学和重建环境条件来完成对家庭生殖过程的全面多变量分析(使用对数-线性联想表模型)，以便为分析设计提供信息并帮助解释结果。在整个研究期间，这些村庄的家庭都在进行杀婴。这项研究将检验这样一种假设，即总的来说，杀婴是一种旨在服务于企业干家族长期利益的计划生育形式。这项研究将有助于人口人类学、历史人类学和家庭亲缘关系的研究。它将提供关于农业家庭中妇女地位的重要理论材料，并可能有助于阐明当今第三世界中发现的被动杀婴现象。

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.