The warriors of the Edo period (1600-1868) relied on adoption in the event of the absence of an heir. As the warrior class became increasingly impoverished, dowry-driven adoption became widespread. Some went so far as to sell their warrior status by adopting sons from wealthy peasant or bourgeois families. The thesis proposes to approach the practice of adoption from different angles. It shows that the modalities could vary according to the size expand profile of the domain, the rank of the warrior, the position he occupied in the hierarchy, but also according to his financial situation. The first part of the thesis examines the differences in income between the adoptive family and the adoptee's family using a quantitative approach, based...
Abstract: The stereotype of the Japanese family system, centered on the ie, characterizes it as one ...
The Adoption and Donation of Children in Gévaudan in the Late Middle Ages. In medieval Gévaudan, one...
In order to understand the growth of the Chinese international adoption program, it is necessary to ...
The warriors of the Edo period (1600-1868) relied on adoption in the event of the absence of an heir...
In scholarly studies, adoption is generally ranged among inheritance strategies. A careful examinati...
Using the longitudinal population registers of Shimomoriya (1716-1869), a village in northeastern Ja...
Using longitudinal population registers from two northeastern villages during 1716-1870, this study ...
International audienceEven though adoption was one of the means used by aristocratic families to ens...
Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and th...
To ensure the transmission of their property when they were "childless", that is without any male he...
This paper focusses on the origins of Japanese court's aristocracy and try to present an explanation...
This section discusses the complex psychological and philosophical reason for Shogun Yoshimune’s con...
ABSTRACT: From the earliest times, the religious factor has said its word on several social systems....
In this study I shall discuss the marriage politics of Japan\u27s early ruling families (mainly from...
Adoption was widespread in Oceania and has been a subject of many anthropological studies. Reviewing...
Abstract: The stereotype of the Japanese family system, centered on the ie, characterizes it as one ...
The Adoption and Donation of Children in Gévaudan in the Late Middle Ages. In medieval Gévaudan, one...
In order to understand the growth of the Chinese international adoption program, it is necessary to ...
The warriors of the Edo period (1600-1868) relied on adoption in the event of the absence of an heir...
In scholarly studies, adoption is generally ranged among inheritance strategies. A careful examinati...
Using the longitudinal population registers of Shimomoriya (1716-1869), a village in northeastern Ja...
Using longitudinal population registers from two northeastern villages during 1716-1870, this study ...
International audienceEven though adoption was one of the means used by aristocratic families to ens...
Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and th...
To ensure the transmission of their property when they were "childless", that is without any male he...
This paper focusses on the origins of Japanese court's aristocracy and try to present an explanation...
This section discusses the complex psychological and philosophical reason for Shogun Yoshimune’s con...
ABSTRACT: From the earliest times, the religious factor has said its word on several social systems....
In this study I shall discuss the marriage politics of Japan\u27s early ruling families (mainly from...
Adoption was widespread in Oceania and has been a subject of many anthropological studies. Reviewing...
Abstract: The stereotype of the Japanese family system, centered on the ie, characterizes it as one ...
The Adoption and Donation of Children in Gévaudan in the Late Middle Ages. In medieval Gévaudan, one...
In order to understand the growth of the Chinese international adoption program, it is necessary to ...