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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Arase, David M.,; Bestor, Theodore C.,; Bestor, Victoria Lyon,; Brinton, Mary C.,; Campbell, John Creighton,; Coleman, Samuel,; Culter, Suzanne,; Gordon, Andrew,; Hardacre, Helen,; Hendry, Joy,; Isaacs White, Merry,; Johnson, David T.,; Krauss, Ellis S.,; Lyon Bestor, Victoria,; McConnell, David L.,; Reader, Ian,; Roberts, Glenda S.,; Roth, Joshua Hotaka,; Smith, Robert J.,; Smith, Sheila A.,; Steinhoff, Patricia G.,; Yano, Christine R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bestor, Theodore C.,; Bestor, Victoria Lyon,; Steinhoff, Patricia G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)

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...

Table of 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