Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-108). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Also available in print.

Master-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2006.

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-75). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

Thesis (M. Hous. M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.

This thesis examines the anthropology of markets and shopping practices in Mercado Pino Suárez, an indoor market located in Centro Historico in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. The research objective of this anthropological fieldwork is to investigate how markets are a center for social relationships that influence shopping and consumption. Sociability between consumers and vendors is significant as it defines a market. The field research is a two-month-long summer project conducted to understand why people shop at the market, with a major focus on shopping for food related products. Interviews and participant observation, including participation as a consumer or as a volunteer vendor, support observations of social shopping practices that occur within the market. Shoppers attend the market for various reasons, such as purchasing for convenience, price, and quality of the products. However, this thesis will elucidate how shoppers visit the market for the experience of socializing which contributes to familiarity and trust from knowing vendors and their products. Mercado Pino Suárez exemplifies how the market is a shopping experience where vendors and shoppers can be neighbors, friends, and family. Shopper and vendor interactions go beyond economic reasons where people share ideas about food and cuisine, thus illuminating the market’s significance in shaping local culture.

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What is the shopping centre, and how can the works of Gilles Deleuze, help us to understand it ethnographically? In light of a growing interest in Deleuze’s work across both the humanities and social sciences (see Jensen and Rodje, 2010) as well as the long-standing calls to “take Deleuze into the field” (Bonta, 2005) and develop what research methodologies might emerge in conjunction which his philosophy (see Coleman and Ringrose, 2013), this thesis explores the possibilities of an ethnography which tries to take seriously the questions surrounding an ethical practice of working with philosophy in the field, grappling not only with Deleuze’s concepts during and as part of fieldwork but attempting to meaningfully engage with the incongruities between the philosophical assumptions which underpin ethnographic practice and Deleuze’s metaphysic (often labelled a “transcendental empiricism”); the most salient of these being “the subject”. In unfolding the stories of the shopping centre, a behemoth of social machination which is both reflective and productive of the contemporary sociocultural milieu, this thesis will explore the various forms of “madness” which populate the field, threading connective lines between the highly plural groups of interlocutors, widely separated spaces and the varying rhythms and temporalities which can be said to correspond to the shopping centre. Focusing on central issues of bodies (space) and time as they are encountered in the shopping centre , this thesis shall take, as one of its major points of inquiry, the questions surrounding the writing of ethnography and the ways in which this represents and reaffirms the metaphysic which is taken-for-granted as a part of the ethnographic encounter; at times delving into what might be called the ‘pataphysical or the absurd, playing with thick and thin description and taking various flights of madness in order to find ways of pushing against what Deleuze calls, the ossified and dogmatic images of thought at the core of Western philosophy.