Pragmatic Concerns
Fluid Communities
Networking
Partial knowledge
Japanese words
100
The 3 things needed to set up a research location
What is money, time and energy?
100
communities that lack stability and definable physical boundaries are called
What is "in transit"?
100
the hardest place to get her fieldwork going, and it was partly because their "___ ____" mentality got in her way.
What is New York and "big city"?
100
enables the ethnographer to share certain aspects, segments, or scenes of her informants' hybrid lives
What is "deep hanging out"?
100
an assignment, or the state of being assigned, to a remote overseas post.
What is Kaigai chuuzai?
200
it seemed that all she did in the first few weeks in two field sites was to make _______ and go __________.
What is phone calls and shopping?
200
Japanese wives based their frendships on these things
what is age, family composition, interests, tastes and lifestyles ?
200
the only organization that was open to her research
What is Nihonjinkai (grass-roots group of Japanese Americans in and around New York that also included some expatriate Japanese members)?
200
her data primarily came from..
who is corporate Japanese wives?
200
"strike by night, run in the morning"
What is youchi asagake?
300
The number of funding sources she found were...
What is.. 2 sources?
300
the two institutions that played limited roles in communities are
What is religious and political institutions?
300
the Japanese saying she uses to describe her difficulty of completing all the tasks she had to do before her dad could get her connections in New York.
What is "there is nothing more expensive than a free gift" ?
300
her data collection depended on "talking" with her informants, and understanding subtle verbal and ___-_____ signals.
What is non-verbal?
300
strike by noon, run in the evening.
What is Hiruuchi yuugake?
400
the location of her field research was ___ and the people she studied were___
What is middle-class America; and expatriate Japanese?
400
the closest things to community centers are the Japanese....
What is grocery stores?
400
Her father faxed her a list of 5 individuals, and even before she had the chance to call them, they were already calling her. She saw this as a "____-______" worldview of expatriate Japanese workers, who were physically in the United States.
what is "Tokyo-centered"?
400
most expatriate informant families were closed to intrusions by....
What is "outsiders"?
400
human relationships
What is ningen kankei?
500
this source of communication is essential for fieldwork..
What is learning multiple languages or dialects?
500
some expatriate Japanese could not join exclusive community organizations because they had to be...
What is members only, and business oriented?
500
realizing that the great majority of expatriate Japanese in New York came from Tokyo headquarters, in the end she realized that the answer she was looking for all along was...
What is back home?
500
Her Japanese origin gave her more _________ in this particular fieldwork setting.
What is advantages?
500
a person who plays, or a loafer without recognizable and honest means of making a living.
What is asobinin?
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