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Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Theodore C. Bestor
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Description for Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Paperback. In the centre of Tokyo, the world's biggest fish market is a complex socio-economic environment staging daily auctions and also host to hundreds of stalls that sell to the public. Theodore Bestor explores the social and commercial relationships that make the system work. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 439 pages, 67 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations, 6 maps, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
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 quickly change hands in Tsukiji's auctions and in the marketplace's hundreds of tiny stalls. In this absorbing firsthand study, Theodore C. Bestor--who has spent a dozen years doing fieldwork at fish markets and ... Read more
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 quickly change hands in Tsukiji's auctions and in the marketplace's hundreds of tiny stalls. In this absorbing firsthand study, Theodore C. Bestor--who has spent a dozen years doing fieldwork at fish markets and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
439
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Number of Pages
439
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520220249
SKU
V9780520220249
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About Theodore C. Bestor
Theodore C. Bestor is Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies at Harvard University and past President of the American Anthropological Association's East Asian Studies Section and the Society for Urban Anthropology. His publications include Neighborhood Tokyo (1989), Doing Fieldwork in Japan (coeditor, 2003), and "How Sushi Went Global" in Foreign Policy (2000).
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