现货Market Day in Provence (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)[9780226141855]

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作者de la Pradelle, Michèle ; Jacobs, Amy ; Katz, Jack

出版社University of Chicago Press

ISBN9780226141855

出版时间2015-10

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页数272页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-04-14

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商品描述: At farmers' markets, we expect to see fruit bursting with juicy sweetness and vegetables greener than a golf course. For Michèle de La Pradelle these expectations are mostly the result of a show performed by merchants and sustained by our propensity to see what we want to see there. Hailed upon its release in France, the award-winning Market Day in Provence lays bare the mechanisms of the contemporary outdoor market by providing a definitive account of the centuries-old institution at Carpentras, a city near Avignon in the south of France famous for its quintessential public street market. The renewal and celebration of the outdoor market culture in recent years, argues de La Pradelle, artfully masks a fierce commitment to modern-day free-market economics. Responding to consumer desire for an experience that recalls a time before impersonal supermarket chains and mass-produced products, buyers and sellers alike create an atmosphere built on various fictions. Vendors at the ma