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Bestor, Theodore Charles was born on August 7, 1951 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Son of Arthur and Dorothy Alden (Koch) Bestor.
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Neighborhood Tokyo by Theodore Bestor (1990-03-01)
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Neighborhood Tokyo
(In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and...)
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, overlapping and intertwining associations and institutions provide an elaborate and enduring framework for local social life, within which residents are linked to one another not only through their participation in local organizations, but also through webs of informal social, economic, and political ties. This book is an ethnographic analysis of the social fabric and internal dynamics of one such neighborhood: Miyamoto-chō, a pseudonym for a residential and commercial district in Tokyo where the author carried out fieldwork from June 1979 to May 1981, and during several summers since. It is a study of the social construction and maintenance of a neighborhood in a society where such communities are said to be outmoded, even antithetical to the major trends of modernization and social change that have transformed Japan in the last hundred years. It is a study not of tradition as an aspect of historical continuity, but of traditionalism: the manipulation, invention, and recombination of cultural patterns, symbols, and motifs so as to legitimate contemporary social realities by imbuing them with a patina of venerable historicity. It is a study of often subtle and muted struggles between insiders and outsiders over those most ephemeral of the community's resources, its identity and sense of autonomy, enacted in the seemingly insubstantial idioms of cultural tradition.
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Theodore Charles Bestor
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Bachelor in Anthropology magna cum laude, Fairhaven College, Bellingham, Washington, 1973; Master of Arts in East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 1976; Master of Arts in Anthropology, Stanford University, 1977; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Stanford University, 1983.
Career
Director Japanese and Korean studies, Social Science Research Council, New York City, 1983-1986;
assistant professor anthropology, Columbia University, New York City, 1986-1989;
associate professor, Columbia University, New York City, 1990-1993;
associate professor anthropology, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1993. Curriculum consultant Asia Society, 1984-1985, 93-, Japan Society, 1986-1988, Matsushita Foundation, 1986-1991, National Endowment for Humanities project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, Columbia University, 1988-1993. Member human subjects institutional review board Columbia University, 1991-1993.
United States Information Service delegate Korea-American Cultural Exch. Commission, 1984; lecturer in field.
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Neighborhood Tokyo
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Neighborhood Tokyo by Theodore Bestor (1990-03-01)
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- TRADITION AND JAPANESE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN A TOKYO NEIGHBORHOOD
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Neighborhood Tokyo
Membership
Member American Anthropol. Association (program committee for annual meetings 1993, 94), New York Academy Science (chair Anthropology section 1990-1992), Social Science Research.Coun. (joint commission on Japanese studies since 1993), Association for Asian Studies (board directors since 1995, chair northeast Asia county since 1995), Society for UrbanAnthropology (president since 1994), American Ethnological Society, Japan Society, International House Japan, Royal Anthropol.
Institute, Society Economics Anthroplogy.
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Married Victoria Lyon, August 16, 1975. 1 child, Nicholas.
