Lived Experiences of Public Consumption

Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents

  • Daniel Thomas Cook
Book

Part of the Consumption and Public Life book series (CUCO)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Dramaturgies of Value in Market Places

    1. Introduction: Dramaturgies of Value in Market Places
      Daniel Thomas Cook
      Pages 1-10

  3. Playing In and With Market Places

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
      PDF
    2. The Play of Authenticity in Thai Handicraft Markets
      Frederick F. Wherry
      Pages 13-30
    3. Tradition, Adventure, and Pleasure in Santiago, Chile’s Informal Markets
      Joel Stillerman
      Pages 31-49
    4. Shopping for People, or Shopping for People?: Deciphering the Object of Consumption Among Tourists in Banaras
      Jenny Huberman
      Pages 50-68

  4. Blurred Boundaries Between Market and Home

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 69-69
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    2. ‘Pleasure from Bitterness’: Shopping and Leisure in the Everyday Lives of Taiwanese Mothers
      YuLing Chen
      Pages 71-91
    3. ‘Attention, Shoppers — Family Being Constructed on Aisle Six!’: Grocery Shopping and the Accomplishment of Family
      Jan Phillips
      Pages 92-108

  5. Transgressions and Interstitial Spaces

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 109-109
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    2. Spreading Like a Dis/ease?: Afro-Jamaican Higglers and the Dynamics of Race/Color, Class and Gender
      Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude
      Pages 111-136
    3. ‘The Flow of Words and the Flow of Value’: Illegal Behavior, Social Identity and Marketplace Experiences in Turin, Italy
      Giovanni Semi
      Pages 137-157

  6. Global Patrons, Globalizing Markets

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 159-159
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    2. Beyond Borders: The Politics and Place of the Global Shop
      Kim Humphery
      Pages 161-178
    3. Framing a Fair Trade Life: Tensions in the Fair Trade Marketplace
      Keith Brown
      Pages 179-202
    4. The Mall and the Street: Practices of Public Consumption in Mumbai
      Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
      Pages 203-220
    5. ‘They Come, and They Are Happy’: A Gender Topography of Consumer Space in Dubai
      Anette Baldauf
      Pages 221-240
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 241-251
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About this book

Introduction

This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face encounters in marketplaces.

Keywords

Framing gender identity Tradition

Editors and affiliations

  • Daniel Thomas Cook
    • 1
  1. 1.Rutgers UniversityUSA

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