Doing Fieldwork in Japan: Doing Fieldwork in Japan Pa - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 082482525X ISBN 13: 9780824825256

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2003

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Doing Fieldwork in Japan Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting longterm 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 ass... Full description

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"An important and fascinating volume for experts on other world regions who plan to include Japan in their multi-sited research projects, and an excellent introduction to the work of major researchers on Japan whom we all should be reading."

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 082482525X
• ISBN 13: 9780824825256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426
• Editor: Bestor Theodore C., Bestor Victoria Lyon, Steinhoff Patricia G.