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Publications

Theodore C. Bestor

Department of Anthropology

Harvard University

<bestor@wjh.harvard.edu>

updated 10/25/2003

Books

Doing Fieldwork in Japan, 2003. edited by Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor, University of Hawai’i Press. (ISBN: 0-8248-2525-X (cloth edition), 0-8248-2734-1 (paperback edition))

Neighborhood Tokyo. Stanford University Press. 1989. (paperback editions: Stanford University Press 1990; Kodansha International 1990).

· winner of the Robert E. Park Award for Urban and Community Studies, American Sociological Association, 1990

· winner of the Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award for Japanese Studies, American Association of University Presses, 1990

· designated an “Outstanding Academic Book of the Year,” Choice, 1989-90

in press

Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World. University of California Press (Philip Lilienthal Imprint); in press (publication expected April 2004).

in preparation

Global Sushi: Commodity, Environment, and Consumption in the Transnational Tuna Trade. (working title) in preparation.

edited volumes in preparation

Japan’s Globalizations: Structure, Agency, and Image (working title), edited by Harumi Befu, Theodore C. Bestor, and Merry I. White; anticipated completion of manuscript, January 2004.

Cuisine, Consumption, and Culture: Food in Contemporary Japan (working title), edited by Theodore C. Bestor and Victoria Lyon Bestor, in preparation for the University of California Press.

Spiritual Quests in Japan: A View from Santiago de Compostela, edited by Maria Rodriguez Alisol, Peter Ackermann, and Theodore C. Bestor, in preparation for Curzon Press.

Articles and Chapters

“Introduction to Doing Fieldwork in Japan” (co-authored with P. Steinhoff and V. Bestor), Doing Fieldwork in Japan, University of Hawai’i Press. 2003.

“Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork,” in Bestor, Steinhoff, and Bestor (eds.), Doing Fieldwork in Japan, University of Hawai’i Press. 2003.

“Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Sushi Trade,” in Setha Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga (eds.) The Anthropology of Space and Place, Blackwell. 2003.

“Networks, Neighborhoods, and Markets: Field Research in Tokyo,” in Gmelch and Zenner (eds.), Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City. (4th edition). Waveland Press. 2002. pp. 146-61.

“Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and The Global City,” American Anthropologist. 2001, 102 (1): 76-95.

“Markets and Exchange: The Intersection of Global and Local,” in Inose Kumie (compiler), Minzokushi o kiban to suru gurōbaru Japan no moderuka to gurōbarizēshon riron no kōchiku [Model of Global Japan and Globalization]: Kenkyū Seika Hōkokusho. Kōnan University, March 2001. pp. 11-24.

“Transnational Tuna: Globalization, Market, and Commodity,” in Inose Kumie (compiler), Minzokushi o kiban to suru gurōbaru Japan no moderuka to gurōbarizēshon riron no kōchiku [Model of Global Japan and Globalization]: Kenkyū Seika Hōkokusho. Kōnan University, March 2001. pp. 88-120.

“Tsukiji: Tokyo’s Pantry,” The Japan Quarterly, January 2001. pp. 31-41.

“How Sushi Went Global,” Foreign Policy. Nov./Dec. 2000. pp. 52-63.

· reprinted in Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 11^th edition, edited by James Spradley and David McCurdy, Allyn and Bacon/Longman. 2002.

· reprinted in Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, 6th edition, edited by Aaron Podolefsky and Peter Brown, McGraw-Hill. 2002.

· excerpted in Spanish translation, as “La globalización del sushi,” La Revista Gestión (Quito), Marzo 2002, pp. 4-9.

· excerpted in Spanish translation, in El Nacional (Caracas), May 2001.

· excerpted in The American Enterprise, March 2001, pg. 56

· excerpted in Anthropology Newsletter, February 2001.

· reprinted in Australian Financial Review, December 2000.

· re-published online by the Arts and Letters Daily, November 2000.

· excerpted as “Tuna: A Case Study in Globalization,” The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo), November 26, 2000.

· online at <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2000/essay-bestor.html>

“Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market,” in Setha M. Low (ed.), Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader. Rutgers University Press, 1999. pp. 201-42.

“Constructing Sushi: Food Culture, Trade, and Commodification in a Japanese Market,” in Susan O. Long (ed.), Lives in Motion. Cornell East Asia Series. No. 106. 1999. pp. 151-90.

"Making Things Clique: Cartels, Coalitions, and Institutional Structure in the Tsukiji Wholesale Seafood Market," in W. Mark Fruin (ed.), Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim: Studies in Strategy. Oxford University Press, 1998. pp. 154-180.

"Visible Hands: Auctions and Institutional Integration in the Tsukiji Wholesale Fish Market, Tokyo," in Schon Beechler and Kristin Stucker (eds.), Japanese Business: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management. Routledge. 1997. pp. 229-254.

"Forging Tradition: Social Life and Identity in a Tokyo Neighborhood," in George Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner (eds.), Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology (3rd edition). Waveland Press. 1996. pp. 524-47.

"Auctions and Integration in Tokyo's Tsukiji Wholesale Fish Market: An Institutional Ethnography," in Allan Bird (ed.) Best Paper Proceedings, The 1993 Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Business Studies. Columbia Business School, 1993. pp. 185-94.

"The Raw, the Cooked, and the Industrial: Food Culture and Commodification in a Japanese Market," Working Papers on Commodification and Consumer Culture. Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, 1993.

"Rediscovering Shitamachi: Subculture, Class, and Tokyo's 'Traditional' Urbanism," in Gary McDonogh and Robert Rotenberg (eds.), The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space. Bergen and Garvey, 1992. pp. 47-60.

"Urban Life in Japan," in Myron Cohen (ed.), Asia: Case Studies in the Social Sciences. M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

"Conflict, Legitimacy, and Tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood," in Takie S. Lebra (ed.), Japanese Social Organization. University of Hawai’i Press, 1992. pp. 23-47.

"Visible Hands: Auctions and Institutional Integration in the Tsukiji Wholesale Fish Market, Tokyo," Working Paper Series. Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Graduate School of Business, September 1992.

"The Shitamachi Revival," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. 1990, 4th series, vol. 5.

· Spanish translation: "Redescubriendo Shitamachi: Subcultura, clase y el urbanismo tradicional de Tokio," Medio Ambiente y Urbanizacion. 1992, No. 38.

"Tokyo Mom-and-Pop," The Wilson Quarterly. vol. 14, no. 4 (Autumn 1990): 27-33.

"Tokyo no Daidokoro: Research on the Tsukiji Wholesale Fish Market," Japan Foundation Newsletter. 1990, 17(4).

· Japanese translation: "Tokyo no Daidokoro: Tsukiji Uogashi no Kenkyu" Shijoshi Kenkyu [Journal of the History of Markets]. No. 8, October 1990.

"Japanese Whaling Culture: Continuities and Diversities," (with J. Takahashi, A. Kalland, and B. Moeran) Maritime Anthropological Studies, 1989, 2(2): 105-33. (abridged version published as chapter 5 in Kalland and Moeran, Japanese Whaling: End of an Era? Curzon Press, 1992.)

"Tokyo no aru machi ni okeru Katto, Dento, Seitosei" [Conflict, Legitimacy, and Tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood], Minzokugaku Kenkyu [Japanese Journal of Ethnology]. 1989, 54(3).

"Lifestyles and Popular Culture in Urban Japan," in R. G. Powers and H. Kato (eds.), Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture. Greenwood Press. 1989. (bi-lingual version with Japanese-language annotations published by Eikosha, 1992)

"Socio-Economic Implications of a Zero Catch Limit on Distribution Channels and Related Activities in Hokkaido and Miyagi Prefectures, Japan," report to the International Whaling Commission, 1989.

Small-Type Coastal Whaling in Japan. (T. Akimichi, et al.) Occasional Publication No. 27, Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta. 1988. (Japanese translation, Kujira no Bunka Jinruigaku: Nihon no Kogata Engan Hogei. Kaimeisha. 1989)

"Traditionalism and Identity in a Tokyo Neighborhood," in G. Gmelch and W. Zenner (eds.), Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology (2nd edition). Waveland Press. 1988.

"Tradition and Japanese Social Organization: Institutional Development in a Tokyo Neighborhood," Ethnology. 1985, 24(2).

Encyclopedia Articles

“Tokyo,”

in Melvin Ember and Carol Ember (eds.), Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Grolier. 2002.

“Markets, Anthropological Aspects”

in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Pergamon: Oxford. 2001. pp. 9227-9231.

“Central Wholesale Markets”

“Konbini” [Convenience Stores]

“Tsukiji Market”

in Allan Bird (ed.) Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management. Routledge, 2002

“Japan”

in Carol Ember and Melvin Ember (eds.), Countries and Their Cultures. Macmillan, 2001.

"Chōnaikai" [Neighborhood Associations]

"Shitamachi" [The Low City]

in Encyclopedia of Japan. Kodansha, 1983 [republished in Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (1993) and subsequent CD edition (1999)]

Short Articles, Notes, and Comments

“Finding Tokyo” in Let’s Go: Japan. Cambridge: Let’s Go Travel. in press, publication expected Winter 2003.

“What Shape's Your Seafood In?  Trade and Food Culture in the Tsukiji Seafood Market,” Foods and Food Ingredients Journal of Japan. no. 197, 2002, pp. 34-45.

“Tsukiji: The World’s Fish Market,” Tokion, no. 27 (October 2001), pp. 58-63.

“Introduction” to Mock’s Hanayama: Culture, Community, and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood. Mellen Press, 1999.

“Tokyo’s Pantry: Everyday Life at the Tsukiji Seafood Market,” The Hong Kong Anthropologist. issue 11, 1998, pp. 35-40.

“What Shape’s Your Seafood In? Food Culture and Trade at the Tsukiji Market,” American Seafood Institute Report. September 1995.

“Crafting a Response to Global Warming,” in Social Science Research Council, The Requirements of a Transnational World. 1995.

"Mr. Smith and the Rising Sun," Arts and Sciences Newsletter. Cornell University, Fall 1994.

"Tonari Kinjo to Nihonjin" [Community and the Japanese], (with H. Kato and D. Plath) Komyuniti, 1992.

"On the Waterfront: An Anthropologist Visits the Tokyo Fish Market," Columbia. Fall 1991.

"A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Large Impact of Japan's Small Businesses," Japan Society Newsletter. July 1991.

"America and Japan: Restructuring Some Impediments," Japan Digest. Feb. 1, 1991.

"Ao Me ga Mita Nihon no Ichiba - Tabemono" [Japan's Markets and Foodstuffs Seen by Foreign Eyes], Sakana to Seikatsu. December 1990.

"Daijosai to Nihonjin" [Enthronement Ceremonies and the Japanese People], Shincho 45. December 1990.

"Japan still must come to terms with World War II," Japan Economic Journal. Dec. 8, 1990.

"Wangan kiki to Nihon no kokuminsei" [The Gulf crisis and Japan's national character], Nihon Keizai Shinbun. Nov. 8, 1990.

"Daidokoro kara haireru machi" [Entering from the pantry] -- two part article -- Tsukiji Monogatari. No. 7, Autumn 1990 (pp. 26-28) and No. 8, Winter 1991 (pp. 28-30).

"Naze Nihonjin wa gokai sareru no ka" [Why Japanese are misunderstood], Kokusai Yoron. August 1990.

"Navigating Tokyo" Sunday New York Times. March 25, 1990 -- reprinted in John Milton Magazine. June 1990.

"Ajia Kenkyu Gakkai no Nenjisokai ni miru Beikoku ni okeru Nihon Kenkyu" [Japanese Studies in the U.S.: A View from the Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies], Kokusai Koryukikin Kaigai Kaiyu Bunka Jijo Hokokusho, 1988.

"Masukomi oyobi Gakkai ni okeru Beikokujin no Nihonkan" [American Views of Japan in the Media and Academia], Kokusai Koryukikin Kaigai Kaiyu Bunka Jijo Hokokusho. 1988.

"Gendered Domains: A Commentary on Research in Japanese Studies," Journal of Japanese Studies. 1985, 11(1).

"Anthropology and the Social Science Research Council," Anthropology Newsletter. May 1985.

"Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood: An Anthropologist's Journal," Japan Society Newsletter. December 1984.

"Japanese Studies in the United States: The 1980's," (with John W. Hall), Japan Foundation Newsletter. October 1984.

"Craft Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood," Craft International. January/March 1984.

"Moo 'Kiku to Katana' no Jidai de wa nai" [No Longer the Era of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword], Honyaku no Sekai. May 1981.

Teaching Materials and Curatorial Guides

“Holidays and Festivals in Japan,” Teachers’ Guide for Tuning in Japan. Asia Society: 1995.

Neighborhood Tokyo: Study Guide. Media Production Group, Institute for Education on Japan, Earlham College: 1994.

"Old and New in Tokyo" and "Holidays and Festivals in Japan," Faces: The Magazine about People. April 1990.

Seeing Japan: Catalogue and Seeing Japan: Curatorial Handbook. (with Dolores Root and Victoria Lyon Bestor), Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, 1989.

"The Japanese Family: An Overview," in Bestor (ed.), The Japanese Family. Japan Society. 1988.

"My Town: A Background Essay," Video Letter from Japan: Teacher's Guide. The Asia Society. 1984.

Book and Film Reviews

Making Capitalism by Roger L. Janelli with Dawnhee Yim; American Ethnologist, 1999.

Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology by Jinnai Hidenobu; Monumenta Nipponica, 53 (1), 1998.

Japanese Workers in Protest by Christina Turner; Work and Occupation Review, 24 (1): 119-20, 1997.

The Secrets of Mariko by Elisabeth Bumiller; The New York Times, Jan. 2, 1996.

Native and Newcomer by Jennifer Robertson; Contemporary Sociology, 23 (1): 93-4, 1994.

The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman by Laurel Kendall; Medical Anthropology Quarterly, N.S. 3 (2): 215-7, 1989.

The Japanese Overseas by Merry I. White; Journal of Asian Studies, 48 (2): 406-7, 1989.

Home Life in Tokyo by Jûkichi Inouye; American Ethnologist, 15 (2), 1988.

Images of Japanese Society by Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto; American Anthropologist, 89 (4): 995-6, 1987.

Okubo Diary by Brian Moeran; American Ethnologist, 14 (4), 1987.

Japanese Fighting Festival directed by Keiko Ikeda; American Anthropologist, 88: 778-9, 1986.

Lost Innocence: Folk Craft Potters of Onta, Japan by Brian Moeran; Asian Folklore Studies, XLV: 134-6, 1986.

Japanese Society: Reappraisals and New Directions edited by Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto; American Anthropologist, 86 (4): 1005-6, 1984.

Migration in Metropolitan Japan by James W. White; Journal of Asian Studies, XLIV (1): 216-8, 1984.

Everyday Law in Japanese Folk Art by Albert G. Hess and Shigeyo Murayama; Asian Folklore Studies, XLIII (1): 154-6, 1984.

Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan by Winston Davis; Asia Record, 3 (12): 26, 1983.

East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan by Margaret M. Lock; American Anthropologist, 83 (3): 699-700, 1981.

The Namahage: A Festival in the Northeast of Japan by Yoshiko Yamamoto; American Anthropologist, 82 (3): 687-8, 1980.

Video and Multimedia

“Japanese Society and Culture,” with Helen Hardacre -- audio-visual curricular material for the Asia For Educators website established by the East Asian Curriculum Project, Columbia University, 1999.

The following videos were produced by David Plath for the Media Production Group (U.S.) in association with the National Center for Multimedia Education (Japan) and Hoso Daigaku (University of the Air)

Neighborhood Tokyo – ethnographic documentary about neighborhood life; 1992; 28 minutes. [Japanese language version: Tonari Kinjo wa Ikiteiru]

· Neighborhood Tokyo is distributed by DER, <http://www.der.org/>

· Neighborhood Tokyo was excerpted for use in Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film, by Karl Heider (Allyn and Bacon, 1st edition, 1997)

Voices of Experience -- interview on fieldwork in Japan; 1992; 28 minutes.

What's an Anthropologist Doing in Japan? -- interview on fieldwork; 1992; 28 minutes.

Tonari Kinjo to Nihonjin [Community and the Japanese] -- panel discussion with David Plath and Hidetoshi Kato about Japanese community life; 1992; 45 minutes.