Doing fieldwork in Japan / [edited by] Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Victoria Lyon Bestor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bestor, Theodore C.

Steinhoff, Patricia G., 1941-

Lyon-Bestor, Victoria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Fieldwork--Japan.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Anthropologists.

Japan.

Anthropologists--Japan.

Japan--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

ix, 414 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan / Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Victoria Lyon Bestor 1

Starting Out

Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker / Merry Isaacs White 21

New Notes from the Underground: Doing Fieldwork without a Site / Patricia G. Steinhoff 36

From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location / Joy Hendry 55

Fieldwork with Japanese Religious Groups / Helen Hardacre 71

Chance, Fate, and Undisciplined Meanderings: A Pilgrimage through the Fieldwork Maze / Ian Reader 89

Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes

Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research / Samuel Coleman 109

JET Lag: Studying a Multilevel Program over Time / David L. Mcconnell 124

Getting in and Getting along in the Prosecutors Office / David T. Johnson 139

In Search of the Japanese State / Sheila A. Smith 156

Doing Media Research in Japan / Ellis S. Krauss 176

Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access

Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists' Heaven and Hell / Mary C. Brinton 195

Beginning Trials and Tribulations: Rural Community Study and Tokyo City Survey / Suzanne Culter 214

Research among the Bureaucrats: Substance and Process / John Creighton Campbell 229

Dealing with the Unexpected: Field Research in Japanese Politics / David M. Arase 248

Studying the Social History of Contemporary Japan / Andrew Gordon 261

Outsiders in Insiders' Networks

Unraveling the Web of Song / Christine R. Yano 277

Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs / Glenda S. Roberts 294

Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork / Theodore C. Bestor 315

Responsibility and the Limits of Identification: Fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Workers in Japan / Joshua Hotaka Roth 335

Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research / Robert J. Smith 352

Appendix Digital Resources and Fieldwork / Victoria Lyon Bestor 367.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

082482525X

0824827341

OCLC:

51637580