Theodore C Bestor

Biographic Data

ID88002
NAMETheodore C Bestor
GIVEN NAMESTheodore C
FAMILY NAMEBestor
SIGNATUREBESTOR T C
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS129
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX5

  • Embedding food in place and rural development: Insights from the Bluefin Tuna Cultural Festival in Donggang, Taiwan

    Open AccessYi-Chieh Lin, Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2020Cited by: 9References: 5

  • Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World

    Theodore C BestorBOOKTsukiji: The Fish Market at the…2019

    Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji—the world's largest marketplace for seafood—is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as tens of thousands of tons of seafood from every ocean of the world qui…

  • Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork

    Theodore C BestorCHAPTERDoing Fieldwork in Japan2017

  • Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan

    Theodore C Bestor, P G Steinhoff et al.CHAPTERDoing Fieldwork in Japan2017

  • Jeffrey W. Alexander. Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry .Barak Kushner. Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen, Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup .George Solt. The Untold …

    Theodore C BestorARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

  • Cuisine and identity in contemporary Japan

    Theodore C BestorCHAPTERRoutledege handbook of Japanese…2015

  • El sushi en una economía de oferta: Mercancía, Mercado Y La Ciudad Global

    Open AccessTheodore C Bestor, Theodore BestorARTICLERevista Colombiana de Antropología2014

    Urban anthropology has been simultaneously challenged and transformed as forces of globalization —variously defined in economic, political,social, and cultural terms— have been theorized as de-territorializing many social processes and trends formerly regarded as characteristic of urban places. Against a seemingly dis-placed cityscape of global flows of capital, commerce, commodity, and culture, this paper examines the reconfiguration of spatiall…

  • Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath

    Open AccessTheodore C BestorARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2013Cited by: 8References: 14

    On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, an earthquake with an epicenter 130 kilometers east of Sendai off the Pacific coast of northern Japan shook the Tohoku region more violently than any tremor in a thousand years. The quake was approximately 9.0 in magnitude, and it in turn triggered a set of tsunami hurtling across the Pacific Ocean, striking first the coast of Tohoku with waves of unprecedented height and strength, along a coastline str…

  • Is Poverty in Our Genes: A Critique of Ashraf and Galor, “The ‘Out of Africa’ Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development,”American Economic Review(Forthcoming)

    J D''Alpoim Guedes, Theodore C Bestor et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2013Cited by: 6References: 58

    We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims there is a causal effect of genetic diversity on economic success, positing that too much or too little genetic diversity constrains development. In particular, they argue that "the high degree of diversity among African popula…

  • Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

    Patricia Ordóñez De Pablos, Victoria Lyon-Bestor et al.BOOKRoutledege handbook of Japanese…2011

    This Handbook is an interdisciplinary reference work for those interested in an introduction to the contemporary Japanese culture and society.Taking as a starting point the end of World War II (1945) and referring back to major historical events that precede 1945 and important periods for understanding Japan today (Tokugawa period, Meiji period, Taisho period and early Shōwa period) when needed, this is one of the few books in the market that off…

  • Doing Fieldwork in Japan

    David M Arase, Victoria Lyon-Bestor et al.BOOKDoing Fieldwork in Japan2003

    Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale sea…

  • Markets: Anthropological Aspects

    Open AccessTheodore C Bestor, Theodore BestorCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2001

  • Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City

    Open AccessTheodore C BestorARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2001Cited by: 78References: 25

    Urban anthropology has been simultaneously challenged and transformed as forces of globalization-variously defined in economic, political, social, and cultural terms-have been theorized as "de-territorializing" many social processes and trends formerly regarded as characteristic of urban places. Against a seemingly dis-placed cityscape of global flows of capital, commerce, commodity, and culture, this paper examines the reconfiguration of spatial…

  • How sushi went global

    Theodore C BestorARTICLEForeign Policy2000Cited by: 20

    Anthropology

  • Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate

    Open AccessTheodore C BestorARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1999

    Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of. South Korean Conglomerate. ROGER L. JANELLI. with DAWNHEE YIM. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. + 276 pp., figures, tables, notes, bibliography, romanizations, index

  • Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology

    Theodore C Bestor, Jinnai Hidenobu et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998Cited by: 1

    Foreword, by Richard Bender Preface Introduction 1. The High City: Surface and Depths 2. The Cosmology of a City of Water 3. The Rhetoric of the Modern City 4. Modernism and Its Urban Forms Afterword Notes Index

  • Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City

    Theodore C Bestor, Jennifer RobertsonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Chapter 1 Conflict, Legitimacy, and Tradition in a Tokyo Neighborhood

    Theodore C BestorCHAPTERJapanese Social Organization1992

  • Neighbourhood Tokyo

    Open AccessStephen R Smith, Theodore C Bestor et al.ARTICLEAnthropologica1992

  • Neighborhood Tokyo

    Theodore C BestorBOOKNeighborhood Tokyo1990

    In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geographically and demographically, to be considered "neighborhoods." Still, to residents of Tokyo and particularly to the residents of any given subsection of the city, they are socially significant and geographically distinguishable divisions of the urban landscape. In neighborhoods such as these, overlappi…

  • Neighborhood Tokyo

    A W Sadler, Theodore C BestorARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1990

  • Neighborhood Tokyo

    David W Plath, Theodore C BestorARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • Neighborhood Tokyo

    William W Kelly, Theodore C BestorARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1990

  • Neighbourhood Tokyo

    Millie R Creighton, Theodore C BestorARTICLEPacific Affairs1990

  • Neighborhood Tokyo

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989