Doing Fieldwork in Japan

by Victoria Bestor, Patricia Steinhoff, Theodore C. Bestor, et al.

Book Overview

Doing Fieldwork in Japan 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 lively 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824827341
• ISBN13: 9780824827342
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.0"