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Doing fieldwork in Japan

Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Victoria Lyon Bestor ; contributors, David M. Arase ... [et al.]

University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2003

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  • : pbk

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Glossary in Japanese (romanized and in Chinese characters) and English

"[Edited by] Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Victoria Lyon Bestor"--CIP data on t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-395) and index

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This volume 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 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.

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