Theodore C. Bestor
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Theodore C. Bestor (born 1951 in Urbana, Illinois) is a Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Previously, Bestor taught at Cornell University and Columbia University, and was on the staff of the Social Science Research Council. Bestor has written widely on the culture and society of Japan. Much of his research has focused on contemporary Tokyo, including an ethnography of daily life in an ordinary neighborhood, Miyamoto-cho. Since the early 1990s his primary research site has been Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market where he has studied the economic anthropology of institutions, as well as food culture, globalization, and Japan's fishing industry.
He is a past president of the American Anthropological Association's Society for East Asian Anthropology and Society for Urban Anthropology.
Bestor was born August 7, 1951, in Urbana, Illinois. His father Arthur Bestor was a historian and his mother Dorothy Alden Koch Bestor was a professor of English. The family moved to Seattle in 1962. Bestor first visited Japan in 1967, when his father received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the University of Tokyo and Rikkyo University.
Bestor graduated from Fairhaven College in 1973, and received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1983. He taught at Columbia University from 1983 until 1993, and at Cornell University from 1993 to 2001. He lives in Cambridge and his wife, Victoria Lyon Bestor, is Executive Director of the North America Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources.
[edit] Publications
- Doing Fieldwork in Japan, Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Victoria Lyon Bestor (co-editors), University of Hawai'i Press, 2003 (ISBN 0-8248-2734-1)
- Neighborhood Tokyo, Theodore C. Bestor, Stanford University Press 1989 and Kodansha International 1990 (ISBN 0-8047-1797-4)
- Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World, Theodore C. Bestor, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004 (ISBN 0-520-22024-2)
[edit] External links
- Theodore C. Bestor Homepage at Harvard
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Theodore C. Bestor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ted Bestor |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies at Harvard University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Urbana, Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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