Reverse osmosis and a can of beans: An ethnographic study of Latin American immigrant shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee

Peter Redvers-Lee

A chapter in Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations, 2010, pp 309-329 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This chapter looks at how Latin American immigrants go about shopping for groceries in Nashville, Tennessee, and relates this simple act to a wider political economy. The chapter examines the act of shopping for groceries and the immigrants' preferences through elements largely ignored by the prevailing economic paradigm. To some extent, the immigrants are aware that their mode of shopping is not entirely “rational” and that their choices are often informed by nothing more than “feelings” toward a place or product. The ethnography examines how the immigrants deal with their now dislocated practice of shopping in their everyday life in the new city. In examining this process, the ethnography considers the public spaces in which the practice of shopping takes place, and includes both those stores catering directly to immigrants and those serving a wider market.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1108/S0190-1281(2010)0000030016

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