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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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Theodore C. Bestor , Patricia G. Steinhoff , Victoria Lyon BestorPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press Imprint: University of Hawai'i Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.671kg ISBN: 9780824825256ISBN 10: 082482525 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 30 July 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAn 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 Author InformationPatricia G. Steinhoff is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |