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

by Robert J. Shepherd

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"