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Doing Fieldwork in Japan / ed. by Theodore C. Bestor, Victoria Lyon Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824825256
  • 9780824862237
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8/007/23
LOC classification:
  • GN635.J2 ǂb D65 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan -- Starting Out -- Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker -- New Notes from the Underground: Doing Fieldwork without a Site -- From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location -- Fieldwork with Japanese Religious Groups -- Chance, Fate, and Undisciplined Meanderings: A Pilgrimage through the Fieldwork Maze -- Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes -- Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research -- JET Lag: Studying a Multilevel Program over Time -- Getting in and Getting along in the Prosecutors Office -- In Search of the Japanese State -- Doing Media Research in Japan -- Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access -- Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists' Heaven and Hell -- Beginning Trials and Tribulations: Rural Community Study and Tokyo City Survey -- Research among the Bureaucrats: Substance and Process -- Dealing with the Unexpected: Field Research in Japanese Politics -- Studying the Social History of Contemporary Japan -- Unraveling the Web of Song -- Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs -- Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork -- Responsibility and the Limits of Identification: Fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Workers in Japan -- Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research -- Appendix: Digital Resources and Fieldwork -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan -- Starting Out -- Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker -- New Notes from the Underground: Doing Fieldwork without a Site -- From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location -- Fieldwork with Japanese Religious Groups -- Chance, Fate, and Undisciplined Meanderings: A Pilgrimage through the Fieldwork Maze -- Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes -- Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research -- JET Lag: Studying a Multilevel Program over Time -- Getting in and Getting along in the Prosecutors Office -- In Search of the Japanese State -- Doing Media Research in Japan -- Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access -- Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists' Heaven and Hell -- Beginning Trials and Tribulations: Rural Community Study and Tokyo City Survey -- Research among the Bureaucrats: Substance and Process -- Dealing with the Unexpected: Field Research in Japanese Politics -- Studying the Social History of Contemporary Japan -- Unraveling the Web of Song -- Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs -- Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork -- Responsibility and the Limits of Identification: Fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Workers in Japan -- Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research -- Appendix: Digital Resources and Fieldwork -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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