These images are further described in Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory as "agonistic shopping."
Ayios Mammas, Kalymnos, Greece 1996.
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| Shoppers compete over merchandise in a frenzied search for bargains. In this instance it is a vegetable seller who is besieged. Well known for superior produce and low prices, his fruit truck was a weekly meeting-place where neighborhood women could share news and engage in friendly hostilities for the best tomatoes. These images are further described in Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory as "agonistic shopping." Ayios Mammas, Kalymnos, Greece 1996. |
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