Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan 9780824860295

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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Origins and Geopolitical Contexts
3. Data and Methodologies
4. Varieties and Extent of Joint Landownership
5. Lay of the Land: Warichi Practice in Iwade Village
6. Warichi and Natural Hazard
7. Luck of the Draw? Outcomes and Disputes
8. Adaptability, Survivability, and Persistent Influences
9. Final Reflections
Appendix A: Sources for Redistribution Interval Data and Coordinate Data, Echigo Villages
Appendix B: Hikikuji Usage, Supplementary Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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