Food Hawkers: An Interdisciplinary Conference Publicado el 09-02-10
CONFERENCE:
Food Hawkers: Selling in the Street from Antiquity to the Present An interdisciplinary conference.
22-23 April 2010, CRASSH, University of Cambridge.
This conference explores the history, economics, anthropology, and
representation of the selling of food on streets and at markets. The
food trades provide an excellent case to study the dynamics of street
selling and its impact on society as a whole. Food is an essential basic
commodity and food vendors are ubiquitous across time and space. The
focus on food therefore creates possibilities for comparison in
historical and contemporary contexts. It brings out a variety of
different questions in relation to the role of the authorities and to
economic and cultural development. Some of the themes which will be
explored in this conference are: the identity of the food sellers (in
terms of gender, ethnicity, and social status); the role of the street
seller in the distribution of food (types of clientele, products,
introducing new products to larger and different groups); the marketing
of food (what products are being sold and in what ways); food traders
and the establishment (the informal sector, regulation, and tensions
between shopkeepers and street vendors); the representation of food
hawkers (in visual and literary sources); and street traders and
economic development (business opportunities vs. escaping poverty).
More information, including a list of speakers and a registration
form, can be found on the conference website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1183/
This conference is generously sponsored by CRASSH and The Economic
History Society
Convenors:
Melissa Calaresu (mtc12 cam.ac.uk) and Danielle van den Heuvel
(dwagv2cam.ac.uk)
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