Abstract This report reflects on the use of endurance running as an intentional fieldwork method to engage with the farmers and landscapes of rural Japan. It provides a unique means of interacting with those landscapes while taking researchers into places and communities otherwise difficult to reach. Exploration via endurance running results in a restructured researcher-informant relationship, a greater sensual attunement to place-ness, and a more astute interpretation of oral histories and the social construction of rural places. A theoretical and empirical explanation of this method of experiencing and interacting with and within place and then applying the resulting more educated phenomenological sensibility to engage the rural social worlds of Japan is a contribution of this report. This method would similarly benefit researchers embedded in other agricultural, rural, or geographical contexts.

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运行民族志：参与日本农村的文化和景观

摘要 本报告反映了使用耐力跑作为一种有意的田野调查方法，以与日本农村的农民和风景打交道。它提供了一种与这些景观互动的独特方式，同时将研究人员带入难以到达的地方和社区。通过耐力跑的探索导致了研究人员与线人关系的重组、对地方性的更大感性调整，以及对口述历史和农村地区社会建设的更敏锐的解释。对这种体验和互动的方法的理论和实证解释，然后应用由此产生的受过更多教育的现象学敏感性来参与日本的农村社会世界，这是本报告的贡献。