THE POLITICS OF FIELDWORK: RESEARCH IN AN AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP, by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi During World War II, anthropologists and sociologists participated in research on Japanese Americans incarcerated by the federal government. While this experience has been widely discussed, what has received little critical attention are the experiences of the Japanese American field assistants who conducted research within the camps. How did they carry out data collection? What kinds of pressures did they face? How did they respond to practical, political, and ethical challenges? Lane Hirabayashi here examines the case of Tamie Tsuchiyama, a doctoral student in anthropology at U.C. Berkeley who was hired to conduct ethnographic fieldwork for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study [JERS]. Drawing from personal letters, fieldnotes, reports, other archival sources, and original interviews, Hirabayashi describes Tsuchiyama's experiences as a researcher at the W.R.A. camp known as "Poston" in Arizona. The book relates daily life, fieldwork methodology, politics in the camp, as well as providing insight into the pressures that led to Tsuchiyama's resignation, in protest, from the project in 1944. [230 pp; published by the University of Arizona Press: 1-800-426-3797]