..., the autochthones are excluded, displaced by the descendants of Rato Mangilo and Rato Pokilo, who take over the center. The rites of the year bring people together, assembling them into a totality that observes a single annual rhythm of activities and acknowledges a single source of fertility in the nale...

.... Perhaps kōnenki presents particular problems for these women since, because it inevitably signals the end of fertility, it may heighten any ambivalence about not having led the kind of life expected of a Japanese female. Japan atomic bombing of Takaori Taeko White Hayden Boseishugi...

... each other. Circumcision is the instrument by which Abraham achieves potency, and childbirth is the manifestation of Sarah's newfound fertility. Sarah's childbirth is the consequence of, and analogue to, Abraham's circumcision. Stanton Elizabeth Cady Bekhor Shor R Joseph circumcision milah...

...This chapter chronicles the difficult birth of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) in China through the 1980s and 1990s, showing how ideas of improving population quality acted as a persuasive alibi for those pioneers working to develop fertility technologies under crude conditions...

...This chapter presents some final thoughts from the author. Topics discussed include how social context influenced the reproductive culture in Japan; Eastern Japan in world demographic history; and the relationship between fertility and modernity. contraception as alternative to infanticide...

... dispositions, and medical means of fertility control. The humble attitude toward fertility control corresponds to a sense that motherhood constitutes the purpose of being a woman. It draws from these narratives local critiques of modernity and patriarchy that emerge from the confluence of an ethic of service...

... alarm over women's declining fertility and the subsequent interventions to boost childbearing levels. And much as in the late 1800s, contemporary reproductive politics is characterized by race- and class-specific concerns. Early twentieth-century anxiety about declining fertility was focused...

... by the age of twenty-two, and for the next eight years after that, she stopped menstruating and was unable to conceive. To bring back her fertility, Ms.Cheng's family hired a succession of fuke experts who administered her doses of different medicines, but the attempt to restore her...

...The chapter explores the discourse and experience of motherhood within Japan’s low-fertility regime in the early modern period. In a manner rarely seen elsewhere in the early modern world, Japanese families used various means, from infanticide to adoption, to correlate family size with income...

... excrement in ancient Inca religion, signifying fertility and sovereignty, during the nineteenth century became the nexus of an industrial religion of fertilizer, explosives, and networked islands under European and United States imperial control. Like the fetish and the cargo, guano emerged from an ocean...

...; and that they did so because of indigo blue's association with human and earthly fertility over which royalty was understood to have control. The data suggest that over subsequent centuries, royal women and non-royal women across Hausaland (a linguistic region straddling Nigeria and Niger of which Kano...

...This chapter examines the prevalence of male hierarchy and exclusiveness in terms of “marked” and “unmarked” fertility cults in Amazonia. Marked fertility cults are those in which male rituals exclude women; symbolically preempt their generative powers; and separate mothers from children. Unmarked...

...This chapter examines some resemblances between Amazonian and Melanesian men's cults. These cults portray the omatisia ritual of the Paiela of the Papua New Guinea highlands as a political act of “reproduction” in which immature boys are “reborn” as fertile adults. Women's fertility is subordinated...

... was smaller than the one before it. By 1850, however, a typical couple in the same region raised four or five children; by the 1920s the average woman had six children. The reverse fertility transition in Eastern Japan confounds the assumption that fertility only changes from high to low. bodhisattvas...

... and shared the same understandings of time, prudence, security, and social obligations. class relations poor villagers challenge of rearing children poverty historiography of link to infanticide samurai socioeconomic status and fertility abortion induced advertisements for Anjirō first Japanese convert...

...Chapter 4 provides a demographic foundation for the study. It begins by linking educational migration with the resettling of Tibetan exiles in Nepal and India in the 1960s, where they established the schools and monasteries where many Nubri children now reside. By comparing fertility differentials...

..., fertility fetishism was grounded in the ordering of Maale horticulture and hunting. Gender provided the ground for fetishization of fertility in Maale. Domestic mode of production Engels Friedrich Historical materialism Horticulture Human strength Maale Marx Karl Meillassoux Claude Productive powers...

... traces of hundreds of thousands of infanticides in the statistics of the modern Japanese state. Nonetheless, by 1925, total fertility rates approached six children per woman in the very lands where raising four had once been considered profligate. This reverse fertility transition suggests...

...This chapter presents comparative data on contemporary mortality rates and patterns among several different American Indian tribes, including the Navajos. It is noted that tribes with higher mortality rates would also have higher fertility rates. Fertility may be linked in some complex way both...

... in the literatures on “concepts of conception,” “sexual antagonism,” “pollution,” male/fertility cults, and ritual homosexuality. The chapter concludes by stating that, in both Melanesia and Amazonia, sexuality and reproduction flow into each other and are part of a broader confluence of indigenous philosophies...