In this Book
- Doing Fieldwork in Japan
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Starting Out
- pp. 19-105
- Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes
- pp. 107-192
- In Search of the Japanese State
- pp. 156-175
- Doing Media Research in Japan
- pp. 176-192
- Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access
- pp. 193-273
- Outsiders in Insiders' Networks
- pp. 275-366
- Unraveling the Web of Song
- pp. 277-293
- Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research
- pp. 352-366
- Appendix: Digital Resources and Fieldwork
- pp. 367-373
- Glossary of Japanese Terms and Abbreviations
- pp. 375-382
- Bibliography
- pp. 383-395
- About the Contributors
- pp. 397-400
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824862237
Related ISBN(s)
9780824825256
MARC Record
OCLC
607045992
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No