Introduction: Dramaturgies of value in market places
Part I Playing In and With Market Places
1. The play of authenticity in Thai handicraft markets
2. Tradition, adventure, and pleasure in Santiago, Chile's informal markets
3. Shopping for people, or Shopping for people?: Deciphering the object of consumption among tourists in Banaras
Part II Blurred Boundaries Between Market and Home
4. 'Pleasure from bitterness': Shopping and leisure in the everyday lives of Taiwanese mothers
5. 'Attention, shoppers - Family being constructed on aisle six!': Grocery shopping and the accomplishment of family
Part III Transgressions and interstitial spaces
6. Spreadiing like a dis/ease?: Afro-Jamaican higglers and the dynamics of race/color, class and gender
7. 'The flow of words and the flow of value': illegal behavior, social identity and marketplace experience in Turin, Italy
Part IV Global Patrons, Globalizing Markets
8. Beyond borders: the politics and place of the global shop
9. Framing a Fair Trade Life: tensions in the Fair Trade Marketplace
10. The mall and the street: practices of public consumption in Mumbai
11. 'They come, and they are happy': a gender topography of consurmer space in Dubai.
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Lived experiences of public consumption : encounters with value in marketplaces on five continents. ISBN 9780230517042. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
