Blood talks: Eugenic modernity and the creation of new Japanese

History and Anthropology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 191-216

  Robertson, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Consanguinity; Eugenics; Japan; Kinship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL GENETICS; PATERNITY; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUGENICS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MARRIAGE; PATERNITY; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; UTOPIAS;

EID: 13244283476     PISSN: 02757206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0275720022000025547     Document Type: Article

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