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

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