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PUBLICATIONS ON THE TSUKIJI MARKET,

Japanese Food Culture,

AND THE GLOBAL TUNA INDUSTRY

Theodore C. Bestor

Department of Anthropology

Harvard University

<bestor@wjh.harvard.edu>

updated August 13, 2004

Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World

University of California Press, July 2004

California Series on Food and Culture

ISBN 0-520-22024-2 (paper) $24.95

ISBN 0-520-22023-4 (cloth) $60.00

412 pages, 69 illustrations, 6 maps, 11 tables,

glossary, appendix on visiting Tsukiji, bibliography, index

Book in preparation

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

Published articles

“Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade,” in The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture, edited by Setha Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga. Blackwell. 2003, pp. 301-20.

“La globalización del sushi,” La Revista Gestión (Equador), Marzo 2002, pp. 4-9. (Spanish language edition of Foreign Policy.)

“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.

“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.

“Central Wholesale Markets” and “Tsukiji Market,” in Allan Bird (ed.) Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management. Routledge, 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.

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

“Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and The Global City,” American Anthropologist (part of a special issue on “Remapping the City: Place, Order, and Ideology”), 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. 54-63.

· 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>

“Constructing Sushi: Food Culture, Trade, and Commodification in a Japanese Market,” in Susan O. Long (ed.), Lives in Motion. Cornell East Asia Series, Monograph No. 106. 1999. pp. 151-190.

“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.

"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.

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

"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. -- reprint of 1992 working paper for Columbia’s Center on Japanese Economy and Business.

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

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

"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.

"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.

"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.

“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).

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

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

Material available on-line

Articles by Bestor

“How Sushi Went Global,” Foreign Policy. Nov./Dec. 2000.

• http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2000/essay-bestor.html

• sidebar on ICCAT

http://foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2000/essay-bestor-sidebar.html

• sidebar on Tsukiji

http://foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2000/essay-bestor-sidebar2.html

• Spanish language excerpt of Foreign Policy article in El Nacional (Caracas)

http://www.el-nacional.com/revistas/todoendomingo/todo66/reportaje2.htm

• excerpt of Foreign Policy article published in The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo)

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newsstand/fp/2000112601.htm

Articles and interviews about Bestor’s research on-line

National Public Radio’s Marketplace, interview with Bestor at the first tuna auctions of the New Year, January 6, 20003 (audio file can be downloaded)

http://marketplace.org/shows/2003/01/06_mpp.html

article in ScienCentral News, “Diamonds of the Deep,” August 16, 2001

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?language=english&type=&article_id=218391651&PHPSESSID=d83f6b9c55583fe8865dcb27e801b0cb

“U.S. seafood exporters fish for new Asian markets,” USDA’s AgExporter (1996)

http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/SeafoodTechnology/SeafoodMedia/AE-Seafood0296_files/application_files/CA63GDQN_files/CA5RRKKS.htm

“Research Clears Path from Northeast to World's Biggest Seafood Market,” New York Sea Grant Institute’s Nor’easter

http://risg.gso.uri.edu/noreaster/noreasterFW96/seafood_fw96.html

“Anthropologist's Tokyo market studies foster East-West understanding,” Cornell News Service

http://www.news.cornell.edu//Chronicle/96/6.20.96/fish.html

article summarizing Bestor’s talk on sushi culture at Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington DC, May 1999

http://www.embjapan.org/embj2/Jun99.pdf

article in Harvard Gazette

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/12.06/03-bestor.html

Edited volume in preparation

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

Unpublished papers, in preparation for publication

“Main-Street Sushi: The Americanization of Japanese Cuisine,” article in preparation.

“The Social Death of Things: Commodification, Ritual, and the Cultural Biography of Seafood,” article in preparation.