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Neighborhood Tokyo (A Study of the East Asian Institute Columbia University) by Theodore C. Bestor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Theodore C. Bestor
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804717977
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Sociology, History
