Isbn: 9780824825256 - bestor: doing fieldwork in japan pa (16 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cloth hardcover, ix + 414 pages, b&w photos in text, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A minor very tiny stain right on the tip of upper outer corner of a portion of leaves. No dust jacket. -- An essential guide for anthropologists, sociologists, and other social scientists who are planning to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Japan. The book brings together the experiences and insights of leading researchers who have navigated the complexities of fieldwork in a country known for its unique cultural and social landscape. Covering a wide range of topics, from methodological approaches to practical challenges, this book serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding the intricacies of conducting fieldwork in Japan. Key Themes and Topics: - Fieldwork Preparation and Planning; - Cultural and Social Dynamics; - Methodological Approaches; - Challenges of Fieldwork in Japan; - Ethics and Reflexivity; - Case Studies and Examples; - Theoretical Insights. -- "Doing Fieldwork in Japan" is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and scholars in anthropology, sociology, Japanese studies, and other related fields. It is particularly valuable for those planning to conduct fieldwork in Japan or other culturally distinct environments. The book is also useful for educators and practitioners who are interested in understanding the methodological and ethical challenges of cross-cultural research. -- Contents: Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan; -- Starting Out: -- Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker / Merry Isaacs White; New Notes from the Underground: Doing Fieldwork without a Site / Patricia G. Steinhoff; From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location / Joy Hendry; Fieldwork with Japanese Religious Groups / Helen Hardacre; Chance, Fate, and Undisciplined Meanderings: A Pilgrimage through the Fieldwork Maze / Ian Reader; -- Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes: -- Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research / Samuel Coleman; Jet Lag: Studying a Multilevel Program over Time / David L. McConnell; Getting in and Getting along in the Prosecutors Office / David T. Johnson; In Search of the Japanese State / Sheila A. Smith; Doing Media Research in Japan / Ellis S. Krauss; -- Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access: -- Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists' Heaven and Hell / Mary C. Brinton; Beginning Trials and Tribulations: Rural Community Study and Tokyo City Survey / Suzanne Culter; Research among the Bureaucrats: Substance and Process / John Creighton Campbell; Dealing with the Unexpected: Field Research in Japanese Politics / David M. Arase; Studying the Social History of Contemporary Japan / Andrew Gordon; -- Outsiders in Insiders' Networks: Unraveling the Web of Song / Christine R. Yano; Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs / Glenda S. Roberts; Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork / Theodore C. Bestor; Responsibility and the Limits of Identification: Fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Workers in Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth; Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research / Robert J. Smith; Appendix: Digital Resources and Fieldwork / Victoria Lyon Bestor; Glossary; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index.…

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Hardback. Zustand: New. 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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Hardback. Zustand: New. 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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