Doing fieldwork in Japan
by Bestor, Theodore C. Lyon-Bestor, Victoria Steinhoff, Patricia G.
Doing Fieldwork in Japan 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 lively 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 defen…
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- Full title :Doing fieldwork in Japan / [edited by] Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor.
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Doing Fieldwork in Japan 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 lively 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. Contributors: David M. Arase, Theodore C. Bestor, Victoria Lyon Bestor, Mary C. Brinton, John Creighton Campbell, Samuel Coleman, Suzanne Culter, Andrew Gordon, Helen Hardacre, Joy Hendry, David T. Johnson, Ellis S. Krauss, David L. McConnell, Ian Reader, Glenda S. Roberts, Joshua Hotaka Roth, Robert J. Smith, Sheila A. Smith, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Merry Isaacs White, Christine R. Yano
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- 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:1 online resource (ix, 414 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780824862237, 0824862236
- DOI:10.21313/9780824862237
- oclc:ocn875895312
- LC Classification:GN635.J2
- Dewey Decimal:305.8/007/23
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