Doing fieldwork in Japan
By: [edited by] Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor.
Contributors: Bestor, Theodore C.; Steinhoff, Patricia G., 1941-; Lyon-Bestor, Victoria.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Ethnology -- Japan -- Field work; Anthropologists -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Taking note of teen culture in Japan : dear diary, dear fieldworker -- Merry Isaacs White; title: New notes from the underground : doing fieldwork without a site -- Patricia G. Steinhoff; title: From scrambled messages to an impromptu dip : serendipity in finding a field location -- Joy Hendry; title: Fieldwork with Japanese religious groups -- Helen Hardacre; title: Chance, fate, and undisciplined meanderings : a pilgrimage through the fieldwork maze -- Ian Reader; title: Getting cooperation in policy-oriented research -- Samuel Coleman; title: JET lag : studying a multilevel program over time -- David L. McConnell; title: Getting in and getting along in the prosecutors office -- David T. Johnson; title: In search of the Japanese state -- Sheila A. Smith; title: Doing media research in Japan -- Ellis S. Krauss; title: Fact-rich, data-poor : Japan as sociologists'  heaven and hell -- Mary C. Brinton; title: Beginning trials and tribulations : rural community study and Tokyo city survey -- Suzanne Culter; title: Research among the bureaucrats : substance and process -- John Creighton Campbell; title: Dealing with the unexpected : field research in Japanese politics -- David M. Arase; title: Studying the social history of contemporary Japan -- Andrew Gordon; title: Unraveling the web of song -- Christine R. Yano; title: Bottom up, top down, and sideways : studying corporations, government programs, and NPOs -- Glenda S. Roberts; title: Inquisitive observation : following networks in urban fieldwork -- Theodore C. Bestor; title: Responsibility and the limits of identification : fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian workers in Japan -- Joshua Hotaka Roth; title: Time and ethnology : long-term field research -- Robert J. Smith -- Appendix:; title: Digital resources and fieldwork-- Victoria Lyon Bestor.