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This superb study of Japanese society portrays it as a balance between tradition and modernity, culture and person, and authority and emotion. Defying the bounds of traditional social science concepts that obliterate the individual, the book brings out 'real people' in situations where they will act and feel. A work of sociology that truly reads like a novel.

* Virginia Quarterly Review *

In an America of lonely careerists and fragmented families, do we have something to learn from the tightly knit Japanese? Or does Japanese culture confine singular people in a straitjacket? Hamabata... essentially answers 'yes' to both questions in Crested Kimono, a book with case studies as emotionally charged as Kabuki drama.

* Los Angeles Times Book Review *

Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese

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    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 27/08/1991
    ISBN13: 9780801499753, 978-0801499753
    ISBN10: 0801499755
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    Social and cultural anthropology Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Trade Review

    This superb study of Japanese society portrays it as a balance between tradition and modernity, culture and person, and authority and emotion. Defying the bounds of traditional social science concepts that obliterate the individual, the book brings out 'real people' in situations where they will act and feel. A work of sociology that truly reads like a novel.

    * Virginia Quarterly Review *

    In an America of lonely careerists and fragmented families, do we have something to learn from the tightly knit Japanese? Or does Japanese culture confine singular people in a straitjacket? Hamabata... essentially answers 'yes' to both questions in Crested Kimono, a book with case studies as emotionally charged as Kabuki drama.

    * Los Angeles Times Book Review *

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