SRP Year
1994-1995
Principal Investigator(s)
Study Description
This study used annual population registers from two Tokogawa Era villages (17th-19th Centuries) to examine how households and individuals in households adjusted their patterns of marriage, birth, death, migration and household formation in response to changes in population growth rates, local disasters (such as crop failure), and to household difficulties (such as death).
Research Team
Cher Jamison
Sources of Support
This study was supported by funding from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Related Scholarly Output
Publications
- Cornell, Laurel L. 1996. “Infanticide in Early Modern Japan? Demography, Culture, and Population Growth.” The Journal of Asian Studies 55(1):22–50.
- Jamison, Cheryl Sorenson, Laurel L. Cornell, Paul L. Jamison, and Hideki Nakazato. 2002. “Are All Grandmothers Equal? A Review and a Preliminary Test of the ‘Grandmother Hypothesis’ in Tokugawa Japan.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119(1):67–76.
- Jamison, Cheryl Sorenson, Paul L. Jamison, and Laurel L. Cornell. 2005. “Human Female Longevity: How Important Is Being a Grandmother?” Pp. 99–117 in Grandmotherhood–The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.