When Culture Goes to Market: Space, Place, and Identity in an Urban Marketplace (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781433101946)

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 space is produced, reproduced, and shaped by larger economic and social processes. In doing so, he explores the practical limits to formalized bureaucratic planning in the success of this street market. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, When Culture Goes to Market is an excellent practical case study for courses in urban planning, microeconomics, cultural studies, urban and economic anthropology, and sociology.

Author: Robert J. Shepherd
ISBN-10: 1433101947
ISBN-13: 9781433101946
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2007
Pages: 174
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 154