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| From: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux <
fauve@...>
| Book announcement and TOC: Akira Hayami, The Historical Demography of
| pre-modern Japan, University of Tokyo Press, 2001, 191 p.
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| In this volume, Akira Hayami, one of the pioneers of historical demography
| in Japan, reports on the findings of researchers who are working with rich
| sources of data. He explains the importance of their conclusions not only
| for historical studies but also for the understanding the demography of
| contemporary Japan and its foreseeable future.
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| Beginning in 1638, under orders from the central government, town and
| village officials in Tokugawa Japan collected data annually on their
| residents. Although the government original purpose was to ferret out
| adherents to the forbidden religion of Christianity, the information
| collected in the census books known as SAC (Shumon Aratame Cho) has
enabled
| researchers to trace the life histories of individuals and familes for
| several generations, looking at their migration and employment patterns,
| family size and composition, education, and other aspects of community
and
| family life.
|
| Contents:
| Chapter 1 Introduction to historical demography: history and population
| Chapter 2 The establishment and development of historical demography
| Chapter 3 Population trends based on macro-data
| Chapter 4 A demographic overview of early modern Japan based on
| micro-data: population, family reconstitution, and households in Suwa gun,
| Shinano province
| Chapter 5 Demographic aspects of Tokugawa Japan based on micro-data:
| Nishijo mura, Ampachi gun, Mino province
| Chapter 6 Historical demography and family history: a conclusion
| Appendix
| Notes
| Index
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| The author can be reached at
|
ahayami@...
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