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Doing Fieldwork in Japan – Reading List
Books
- Bestor, Theodore C., Patricia G. Steinhoff and Victoria Lyon Bestor (eds.) (2003) Doing Fieldwork in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press
Articles on Fieldwork and Surveys
- Lewallen, Ann-Elise (2007) ”Bones of Contention: Negotiating Anthropological Ethics within Fields of Ainu Refusal,” Critical Asian Studies 39:4, pp. 509-540
- Love, Bridget (2007) ”Fraught Fieldsites: Studying Community Decline and Heritage Food Revival in Rural Japan,” Critical Asian Studies 39:4, pp. 541-559
- Edwards, Elise (2007) ”An Ethics for Working Up?: Japanese Corporate Scandals and Rethinking Lessons about Fieldwork,” Critical Asian Studies 39:4, pp. 561-582
- Yamaguchi, Tomomi (2007)” Impartial Observation and Partial Participation: Feminist Ethnography in Politically Charged Japan,” Critical Asian Studies 39:4, pp. 583-608
- Frühstück, Sabine (2007) ”New Conversations, New Truths: Commentary on “Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics,” Critical Asian Studies 39:4, pp. 609-616
- McLaughlin, Levi (2010) ”All Research is Fieldwork: A Practical Introduction to Studying in Japan as a Foreign Researcher 研究はすべて実地調査ーー外国人研究者として日本で研究するための手引,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
- Smith, Henry D. (1995) Doing Research in Japan
Articles on Archives
- Hammond, Kelly (2012) ”5 Essential Japanese Collections for China Scholars,” in Dissertation Reviews
[Contains useful general information about work in Japanese archives]
- Kersey, Kristopher (2013) ”A Review of the Tokyo National Museum Research and Information Center (東京国立博物館資料館), Tokyo, Japan,” in Dissertation Reviews
- Vallor, Molly (2012) ”A review of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (国際日本文化研究センター, “Nichibunken” 日文研), Kyoto, Japan,” in Dissertation Reviews
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