| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 414 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Taking note of teen culture in Japan : dear diary, dear fieldworker / Merry Isaacs White -- New notes from the underground : doing fieldwork without a site / Patricia G. Steinhoff -- From scrambled messages to an impromptu dip : serendipity in finding a field location / Joy Hendry -- Fieldwork with Japanese religious groups / Helen Hardacre -- Chance, fate, and undisciplined meanderings : a pilgrimage through the fieldwork maze / Ian Reader -- Getting cooperation in policy-oriented research / Samuel Coleman -- JET lag : studying a multilevel program over time / David L. McConnell -- Getting in and getting along in the prosecutors office / David T. Johnson -- In search of the Japanese state / Sheila A. Smith -- Doing media research in Japan / Ellis S. Krauss -- Fact-rich, data-poor : Japan as sociologists' heaven and hell / Mary C. Brinton -- Beginning trials and tribulations : rural community study and Tokyo city survey / Suzanne Culter -- Research among the bureaucrats : substance and process / John Creighton Campbell -- Dealing with the unexpected : field research in Japanese politics / David M. Arase -- Studying the social history of contemporary Japan / Andrew Gordon -- Unraveling the web of song / Christine R. Yano -- Bottom up, top down, and sideways : studying corporations, government programs, and NPOs / Glenda S. Roberts -- Inquisitive observation : following networks in urban fieldwork / Theodore C. Bestor -- Responsibility and the limits of identification : fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian workers in Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- Time and ethnology : long-term field research / Robert J. Smith -- Appendix: Digital resources and fieldwork / Victoria Lyon Bestor |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Japan
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Anthropologists -- Japan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
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Anthropologists
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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Manners and customs
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Ethnologie
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Feldforschung
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Methode
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Soziologie
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Veldwerk.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069579
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Japan
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Japan
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bestor, Theodore C
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Steinhoff, Patricia G., 1941-
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Lyon-Bestor, Victoria
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| ISBN |
9780824862237 |
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0824862236 |
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