Lived Experiences of Public Consumption: Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents [Hardcover]

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.Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dramaturgies of Value in Market Places; D.T.Cook PART 1: PLAYING IN AND WITH MARKET PLACES The Play of Authenticity in Thai Handicraft Markets; F.F.Wherry Tradition, Adventure, and Pleasure in Santiago, Chile's Informal Markets; J.Stillerman Shopping for People, or Shopping for People ? Deciphering the Object of Consumption among Tourists in Banaras; J.Huberman PART 2: BLURRED BOUNDARIES BETWEEN MARKET AND HOME 'Pleasure from Bitterness': Shopping and Leisure in the Everyday Lives of Taiwanese Mothers; Y.Chen Grocery Shopping and the Accomplishment of Family; J.Phillips PART 3:TRANSGRESSIONS AND INTERSTITIAL SPACES Spreading Like a Dis/ease? Afro-Jamaican Higglers and The Dynamics of Race/Color, Class and Gender; W.Brown-Glaude 'The Flow of Words and the Flow of Value': Illegal Behaviour, Social Identity and Marketplace Experiences in Turin, Italy; G.Semi PART 4: GLOBAL PATRONS, GLOBALIZING MARKETS Beyond Borders: The Global Shop in Australia; K.Humphery Framing a Fair Trade Life: Tensions in the Fair Trade Marketplace; K.Brown The Mall and the Street: Practices of Public Consumption in Mumbai; J.S.Anjaria 'They Come, and They Are Happy': A Gender Topography of Consumer Space in Dubai; A.Baldauf Index

'Shattering the image of an impersonal market governed by the intersection of price and quality, Dan Cook and his talented collaborators demonstrate that shopping and buying involve rich social experience all the way down. What's more, they uncover that richness in distinctive places across most of the world.' - Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton Universitl£,