The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp

by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Book Overview

During World War II, over thirty American anthropologists participated in empirical and applied research on more than 110,000 Japanese Americans subjected to mass removal and incarceration by the federal government. While that experience has been widely discussed, what has received little critical attention are the experiences of the Japanese and Japanese American field assistants who conducted extensive research within the camps. How did these field...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816518645
• ISBN13: 9780816518647
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent and Balanced Study of Wartime Incarceration

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi has done a great service to the Asian American Studies community with his study of the life of Tamie Tsuchiyama. Through her own words, Hirabayashi captures her struggles as a researcher coping with the daily exigencies of life in an American concentration camp. Central to his work is the relationship that Tsuchiyama shared with then JERS (Japanese Evacuation Resttlement Study) head, Dorothy Thomas. Not only is this meticulously researched, but poignantly recounted through Hirabayashi's deft analysis. I can't wait to assign this book to my own students.