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The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
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Paperback. Num Pages: 219 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBC; JWXR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
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 researchers carry out data collection in American-style concentration camps? What kinds of constraints and pressures did they face? How did they respond to practical, ethical, and political challenges? In addressing these questions, author Lane Hirabayashi ... Read more
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 researchers carry out data collection in American-style concentration camps? What kinds of constraints and pressures did they face? How did they respond to practical, ethical, and political challenges? In addressing these questions, author Lane Hirabayashi ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816521463
SKU
V9780816521463
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