Neighborhood Tokyo

西奥多·C·贝斯特(Theodore C. Bester)，美国斯坦福大学人类学博士，曾先后在康奈尔大学和哥伦比亚大学执教。现为哈佛大学人类学系主任及日本研究中心教授。贝斯特关于日本社会和文化的著作广博而精深，尤以对当代东京的民族志研究而著名。他曾担任美国人类学学会东亚人类学部及都市人类学部主任。

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Theodore C. Bestor

页数:368

出版时间:1990-3-1

价格:USD 28.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804717977

图书标签:日本人类学人類學文化城市设计Tokyo

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-cho, 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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