When Culture Goes to Market: Space, Place, and Identity in an Urban Marketplace

by Robert J. Shepherd

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When Culture Goes to Market encompasses an ethnographic study of Washington, DC's Eastern Market, a popular weekend produce and flea market, and the people who constitute it: vendors, market supervisors, and customers. By analyzing how this marketplace, in contrast to theoretical notions of The Market, functions as a social institution embedded in a particular time, place, and series of social relationships, Shepherd examines how urban public...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1433101947

ISBN13:9781433101946

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi

Length:174 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Business Business & Investing Social Science Social Sciences

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