Overview

"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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Author:   Theodore C. Bestor ,  Patricia G. Steinhoff ,  Victoria Lyon Bestor
Publisher:   University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint:   University of Hawai'i Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.687kg
ISBN:  

9780824827342

ISBN 10:   0824827341
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   30 July 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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An important and fascinating volume for experts on other world regions who plan to include Japan in their multi-sited research projects. - Kay B. Warren, Harvard University

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

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