Chapter 1 Introduction: Dramaturgies of Value in Market Places

Chapter 2 The Play of Authenticity in Thai Handicraft Markets

Chapter 3 Tradition, Adventure, and Pleasure in Santiago, Chile’s Informal Markets

Chapter 4 Shopping for People, or Shopping for People? : Deciphering the Object of Consumption Among Tourists in Banaras

Chapter 5 ‘Pleasure from Bitterness’: Shopping and Leisure in the Everyday Lives of Taiwanese Mothers

Chapter 6 ‘Attention, Shoppers — Family Being Constructed on Aisle Six!’: Grocery Shopping and the Accomplishment of Family

Chapter 7 Spreading Like a Dis/ease?: Afro-Jamaican Higglers and the Dynamics of Race/Color, Class and Gender

Chapter 8 ‘The Flow of Words and the Flow of Value’: Illegal Behavior, Social Identity and Marketplace Experiences in Turin, Italy

Chapter 9 Beyond Borders: The Politics and Place of the Global Shop

Chapter 11 The Mall and the Street: Practices of Public Consumption in Mumbai

Chapter 12 ‘They Come, and They Are Happy’: A Gender Topography of Consumer Space in Dubai