Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Doing Fieldwork in Japan by Theodore C. Bestor, published by University of Hawaii Press on July 31, 2003, is a comprehensive exploration of the practicalities involved in conducting long-term research in social sciences and cultural studies. This edition, comprising 424 pages, features contributions from North American and European specialists who share their firsthand experiences of fieldwork across various settings in Japan, including urban and rural environments.
Readers will find lively accounts detailing the challenges and successes faced by researchers as they engage with diverse groups, from religious pilgrims to factory workers and students. The book covers a wide array of topics, including customs and traditions, race, ethnicity, and migration, providing insights into the complexities of Japanese society. Through these narratives, the contributors illuminate the intricacies of fieldwork, making this work a valuable resource for those interested in anthropology and cultural studies.
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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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