Tsukiji

筑地是全球最大的海鲜市场，距银座仅几步之遥，却几乎被东京人忽视。本书作者Bestor在此田野十余年，并未把它写成一部鱼经或美食指南，而是聚焦市场背后的社会制度：拍卖如何运转、交易如何在无数微小摊位间被层层组织。读者最看重的，是它用扎实的田野材料把经济学里'嵌入性'这一抽象概念写得可感可触，并在形式主义与实在主义的长久论争中给出独到见解。它适合对经济人类学、日本社会乃至'市场究竟怎样成为一种社会框架'感兴趣的人阅读——一本理论创新有限、却把现有理论与鲜活田野结合到近乎经典的作品。

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).