Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of People and Places ix
4. Glossary of Japanese Terms xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Note on Transliteration xvii
7. Introduction: Producing People Who Have No One 1
8. 1. Kinship Technologies 28
9. Interlude: Bread Days and Rice Days 48
10. 2. Approximating a Household 50
11. Interlude: Genealogical Returns 76
12. 3. Normal Aspirations 79
13. Interlude: Inscriptions 101
14. 4. Materializing Relationships 103
15. Interlude: The End of the World 126
16. 5. The Politics of Chance 127
17. Interlude: Matsumoto’s Family Diagrams 149
18. 6. Knowledge and Narration 152
19. Conclusion 173
20. Notes 181
21. Works Cited 199
22. Index 215