The item you selected is unavailable, but we found something similar.

Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese Busi - Picture 1 of 1

Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family by Matthews Masayuki Hamabata (Paperback, 1991)

Be the first towrite a review.

pbshop.store (256633)
98.9% positive Feedback

Price:

£25.88

Free postage

Estimated delivery Mon, 20 May - Fri, 24 May

Returns:

30 days return. Buyer pays for return postage.

Condition:

New

Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese BusiAuthor: Matthews Masayu Hamabata.

View all details

All listings for this product

item 1 Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family, Hamabata, Matthe
£12.75
Free postage
item 2 Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese Busi
£25.88
Free postage
item 3 The Crested Kimono: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945: Power and Lov
£26.42
Free postage
item 4 Crested Kimono by Matthews Masayuki Hamabata
£28.41
Free postage
item 5 Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family 9780801499753
£28.99
Free postage
item 6 Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business - Paperback NEW Hamabata
£30.71
Free postage
item 7 Crested Kimono : Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family, Paperback by...
£32.36
Free postage

See all 10

About this product

Product Information

Matthews Hamabata got off to an unpromising start when he first arrived in Japan to study influential business families. An unmarried, third-generation Japanese-American graduate student, he was there to learn about business executives in their roles as male principals and heads of households. Some Japanese were less than hospitable and often downright rude to him, and the souvenirs bearing the Harvard University emblem that he had brought along for gifts proved to be inappropriate within the highly ritualized system of Japanese gift-giving. In this engaging and personal narrative, we watch Hamabata in the first disappointing six months of his fieldwork as he attempts to map the boundaries of culture, class, and sexuality. I became my own biggest fieldwork problem, he writes. Was I inside or out? When I thought I was in, I was actually out, but when I acknowledged the fact that I was out, I was let in. He soon recognized the importance of marital and filial relations in transmitting power in the business world, and he began to direct his study to examining the social and emotional lives of all members of the Japanese ie (household) and the way they affect business activity and ownership. He takes us behind the scenes of the family enterprise to see how the multiple layers of reality -biological, social, religious, emotional, and symbolic-relate and cause dilemmas for ie members. (Names, locations, and other details have been altered for the sake of anonymity.) We meet the Moriuchis, the Itoos, the Okimotos-people who must constantly balance their own personal desires against the good of the ie. Many telling vignettes illustrate a central tension in their lives-their need for love, power, and emotional expression versus the constraints of traditional attitudes toward their ancestors, public honor, the economic enterprise, and the obligation to continue the ie over time. A grandfather stubbornly refuses to hand over the reins of succession to the next generation, creating an impossible situation that eventually tears apart an economic empire, as well as the fabric of various interrelated families. Economic, familial, and religious factors figure in a clash for succession between the person who possesses the ancestral tablets and the head of the enterprise. A daughter must reconcile personal love with arranged marriage. Ambitions for the son in line for succession war with the realization that this spoiled, incompetent young man may well ruin the ie. A fascinating portrait of everyday life told with vibrant sensitivity as well as humor, this book is full of the vitality of common concerns: life choices, love and commitment, confrontations with death. It is about very real people trying to make sense of their lives-trying to reconcile the roles and duties dictated by custom and tradition with rapidly changing expectations in the international milieu of contemporary Japan.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-13
9780801499753
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89445419

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Children & Family
Author
Matthews Masayuki Hamabata
Publication Name
Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology, Business
Publication Year
1991
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
204 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Matthews Masayuki Hamabata
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

Best-selling in Adult Learning & University

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best-selling in Adult Learning & University

Secrets Of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightening Calculation and Amazing Maths Tricks by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer (Paperback, 2006)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 16 product ratings
£0.99 New
---- Used
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz (Paperback, 2017)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 41 product ratings
£6.26 New
£5.99 Used
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins (Paperback, 2021)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings
£7.15 New
---- Used
The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar (Paperback, 2008)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 3 product ratings
£11.72 New
---- Used
Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (Paperback, 2020)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 10 product ratings
£44.20 New
£34.99 Used
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Paperback, 2007)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 6 product ratings
£10.83 New
£8.00 Used
Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman (Paperback, 2021)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings
£10.30 New
£9.66 Used

Save on Adult Learning & University

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Adult Learning & University

Bold Beans: Beautiful, Brilliant and Exciting Recipes by Amelia Christie-Miller
£15.99
Trending at £17.29
KS3 Maths Year 8 Targeted Workbook (with answers) by CGP Books (Paperback, 2019)
£7.85
Trending at £7.96
This Is Why You Dream: What your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life b
£14.98
Trending at £15.77
The Concise Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene Paperback, English
£6.95
Trending at £9.03
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Thiel, Peter The
£8.83
Trending at £9.12
Why We Get Sick : The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease PB
£9.84
Trending at £10.83

Shop by category

Picture 1 of 1

Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family by Matthews Masayuki Hamabata (Paperback, 1991)

All listings for this product

item 1 Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family, Hamabata, Matthe

item 2 Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese Busi

item 3 The Crested Kimono: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945: Power and Lov

item 4 Crested Kimono by Matthews Masayuki Hamabata

item 5 Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family 9780801499753

item 6 Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business - Paperback NEW Hamabata

item 7 Crested Kimono : Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family, Paperback by...

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features

Best-selling in Adult Learning & University

Secrets Of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightening Calculation and Amazing Maths Tricks by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer (Paperback, 2006)

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz (Paperback, 2017)

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins (Paperback, 2021)

The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar (Paperback, 2008)

Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (Paperback, 2020)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Paperback, 2007)

Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman (Paperback, 2021)

Save on Adult Learning & University

Bold Beans: Beautiful, Brilliant and Exciting Recipes by Amelia Christie-Miller

KS3 Maths Year 8 Targeted Workbook (with answers) by CGP Books (Paperback, 2019)

This Is Why You Dream: What your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life b

The Concise Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene Paperback, English

Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Thiel, Peter The

Why We Get Sick : The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease PB

You may also like

Paperbacks Books in Japanese

Paperback Language Course in Japanese

Matthew Inman Fiction Paperback Fiction & Books

Business Paperback Language Course

Paperback Antiquarian & Collectable Books in Japanese

Love Fiction Paperback Fiction & Books