Doing Fieldwork in Japan - Softcover

Theodore C. Bestor; Patricia G. Steinhoff; Victoria Lyon Bestor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824827341 ISBN 13: 9780824827342

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824827341
• ISBN 13: 9780824827342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424