Doing Fieldwork in Japan - Softcover

 
9780824827342: Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0824827341 ISBN 13: 9780824827342
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2003

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Patricia G. Steinhoff is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0824827341
ISBN 13 
9780824827342
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
392
Editor
Bestor Theodore C., Steinhoff Patricia G., Bestor Victoria Lyon