Supply-side sushi: Commodity, market, and the global city

American Anthropologist

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 76-95

  Bestor, Theodore C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food culture; Globalization; Markets; Tokyo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035603202     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2001.103.1.76     Document Type: Article

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