Doing fieldwork in Japan

by Bestor, Theodore C. Lyon-Bestor, Victoria Steinhoff, Patricia G.

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Title Statements

Full title :Doing fieldwork in Japan / [edited by] Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor

Summary

This volume taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale seafood markets; with bureaucrats in charge of defense, foreign aid and social welfare policy; inside radical political movements; among adherents of "New Religions"; inside a prosecutor's office and the JET Program for foreign English teachers; with journalists in the NHK newsroom; while researching race, ethnicity and migration; and amidst fans and consumers of contemporary popular culture.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2003

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Hawai'i Press
Place of Publication:Honolulu
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 414 s. : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:082482525X, 9780824825256, 0824827341, 9780824827342
oclc:ocn465018580
LC Classification:GN635.J2
Dewey Decimal:305.8 007 23

Subjects

Anthropologists Anthropologists -- Japan Anthropologues -- Japon Ethnologie -- Recherche sur le terrain … Ethnology -- Fieldwork Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Japan feltarbejde Forskning Japan Japan -- Social life and customs Japon -- Moeurs et coutumes Manners and customs