This document provides an ethnographic case study of the Carrboro Farmers' Market (CFM) in Carrboro, North Carolina. The author conducted fieldwork and observations at the market to explore how tradition and innovation interact in an urban southern context. The author frames their analysis using folklorist Henry Glassie's structure of creation, communication, and consumption. In terms of creation, the author found that while some vendors come from multigenerational farming families, others are newer to farming. All vendors draw on traditions but also innovate in different ways. For communication, the author observed strong social bonds between vendors and between vendors and customers formed through regular interactions at the market. The market serves as both a business and a

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Dimensions of Tradition at an Urban Southern Market:
A Case Study on the Carrboro Farmers’ Market
Alexi Wordell
Professor Berlinger
Folklore 490
6 May 2016

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Introduction
Edna Lewis, a southern chef born in a small farming settlement in Freetown, Virginia,
said food is the bond that connected her to the people she grew up with. She added that her
lifelong effort is to recapture those tastes of her past. According to Lewis, southern food is about
the seasons—it is about eating what the land produced, when it produced it. It is evident that
Lewis’s words express a longing to reproduce a nostalgic past through the meals she creates. Her
words and wisdom remind me of the local food movements currently occurring throughout the
United States, in which people desire locally grown, seasonal foods.
As a student at a southern university, my awareness of local food has grown in a southern
context, which is mainly due to the content of my academic studies. Here at the University of
North Carolina, my studies in folklore are predominantly southern-focused. In addition, I am
pursuing minors in geography and urban planning. Although these disciplines have not examined
the South in the same depth as my American studies courses, my focus for this paper is to
combine my folklore and urban geographical studies background by studying a local southern
marketplace, the Carrboro Farmers’ Market (CFM). The CFM is located in Carrboro, North
Carolina, which is just over thirty miles northwest of Raleigh. I completed fieldwork and
observational analysis to explore what tradition means in the context of the CFM and what
effects food and the urban environment have on each other. In order to find answers, I asked the
following questions: What is an urban southern context? How do tradition and innovation
balance each other at the market? How does social interaction enforce or weaken southern
traditions? And, what can presentation say about identity?
Though ample research has conducted on farmers’ markets, there has not been research
specifically focused on place, material culture, and performance in a southern market setting.

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Furthermore, this work is significant because it contextualizes a farmers’ market in an urban
southern environment through ethnographic observations that draw upon folkloristic and
geographic scholarship.
As I researched, I framed the project questions in folklorist Henry Glassie’s structure for
studying the contexts of a text: creation, communication, and consumption. Glassie’s approach is
one that is cyclical. Meaning, the creation, communication, and consumption of an object repeat
with each passing of the cycle. By investigating the CFM within this framework, I found patterns
of performance and presentation that brought up issues of traditionalism. As the cycle continues,
the push and pull between “tradition” and innovation is distinct at the marketplace, and this
relationship revolves around local food at the urban CFM.
Fieldnotes and Observation Analysis
Creation
Through observational fieldwork, I saw how the southern urban environment influences
the friction between tradition and innovation at the CFM. This was examined within Glassie’s
structure, which begins with the creation of objects, by asking market producers how they began
farming and selling local goods at the CFM. Each farmer had a different story about her or his
experience in agriculture. While many of the producers at the CFM grew up on farms, just as
many did not. The latter tend to sell products from techniques they have learned themselves as
adults, as opposed to learning from transmitted transitions. Depicted in Image 1 below is the
owner of Cates Corner Farm who was raised in a farming family. In fact, her farm has been
family-ran and operated since 1742. Since that time, nine generations have tended to the land.
When I talked with her, standing beside her was her adult son who is also a farmer. While he
chatted with a vendor next to their stand, she proudly explained to me the lineage of family

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farmers, the family reunions they have around the United States, and family members’ increasing
interest in the land now that its price value has risen. For her, family ties to agriculture are deeply
important; this was realized after she told me, with a huge grin, that their farm is the oldest
represented at the CFM.
Image 1 Owner of Cates Corner Farm, family owned and operated for nine generations.
There are also vendors at the market who do not come from family farms, but have spent
decades specializing in certain handmade goods rather than fresh produce. One of these artisans
is Eddie Smith, who appears to be in his seventies and is a ceramicist. While he is not a farmer,
Eddie does source his clay locally—from his own home. He told me he procures the clay from
the walls of his unfinished basement, which he scrapes by hand. He turns his basement clay into
mugs and saucers that he says are inspired by those he grew up using at Moravian Lovefeasts in
North Carolina. His ceramics, however, differ from the traditional ivory ones used at Lovefeasts.

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Specifically, his are glazed in a variety of colors and patterns that bleed into each other, as shown
in Image 2 below. While Eddie’s past is presented in the work he creates and sells at the CFM,
he also modifies the ceramics in original ways, bringing a new life to traditional rural ceramics
that are sold in Carrboro.
Image 2 Ceramicist Eddie Smith makes Moravian-inspired mugs.
Compared to multi-generational family vendors and artisans drawing on their pasts for
inspiration, there are those who took up farming more recently. I found that many producers new
to the market have less “traditional” family structures. For example, Two Chicks Farm is run by
a lesbian couple, Debbie Donald and Audrey Lin. After being laid off from prior employment,
the two took a chance and decided to become farmers. Though initially a market garden
business, Donald told me they now only sell value added products made from the leftover fruits
and vegetables they grow, which can be seen in Image 3. Though neither of them previously had

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experience with farming or canning, they now make their living on preserving, a notably
southern practice.
Image 3 Debbie Donald of Two Chicks Farm sells value-added goods.
Each of these three producers balance tradition and innovation, but in different ways.
Although they come from dissimilar backgrounds, they share a common interest in local
production that has roots in tradition , which has been distinctively altered by the producers. I
argue that the CFM successfully draws upon traditional and “authentic” southern creation
because of the southern urban context. In terms of the South, farmers and producers look to the
past for inspiration, but also simultaneously replenish the region’s identity through innovations
that Ayer’s argues intrinsically belong to the South’s past.1
The urban environment of the market
amplifies the need for farmers to “dramatize” their identities and the multiple ways in which they
can do so.
Communication
Second in Glassie’s structure is communication, or the ways in which people express
ideas and values with one another verbally and through objects and presentation. At the market,
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Edward Ayers, What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History (New York: Norton, 2005), 82.

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people are connected by repeatedly gathering with each other on a regular basis. In the market
setting, this regular assembly of people demonstrates solidarity of community in the context of
local food while the presentation styles offer insight about personal values.
In another photograph by SFA’s Kate Medley, farmer Marjorie Oakley is featured with
her handwritten note that states there is deep social communion at the market.2
I saw through my
own observations that this type of communion exists between the vendors, between the vendors
and customers, and between the market regulars. This is evident by how they speak with one
another and the content of their conversations. For instance, one morning at the CFM I observed
three farmers talking while circling one vendor’s table despite the fact he had sold out of goods
and his tables were bare. The three men talked about their business that day, which included
reflecting on the market’s good and bad selling hours. Initially, I thought the conversations and
interactions between the producers were a way to pass time, but they are much more meaningful
than that.
Though the market is a business with economic incentives, there is a social bond that is
created between the farmer and the customers. One ethnographic study on farmers’ market
writes, “[the market] is both the site and source of local communit[ies], that mode of relatedness
that transcends formal social bonds”.3
In other words, the market allows for a type of social
relationship that is liminal; it occurs at a site where space is transformed into place, the CFM,
becoming the source of community bonds, if only temporarily. For instance, Alex Hitt, owner
and farmer at Peregrine Farm explained to me that he and his wife had been selling at the
Carrboro market for over thirty-five years. He added that although the work is tiring, they refuse
2
Kate Medley, Carrboro Farmers' Market Oral History Project, Southern Foodways
Alliance.
3
McGrath, Mary Ann, et al, "An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Periodic Marketplace: Lessons from the Midville Farmers'
Market." (1993): 280-319.

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to stop because “all our friends are there”, which includes both vendors and customers. Hitt’s
words demonstrate the ephemerality of the farmers’ market and how the few hours they sell
every week are also important for social interaction in addition to income.
At the CFM, time moves slowly; customers take time inspecting produce, checking
prices, chatting with farmers and amongst themselves, and looping around the market. In an
urban environment, this type of movement is specific to a market setting, and more so at farmers’
markets where social interaction is integral to its success. In urban environments where there is
more anonymity, the CFM becomes a place of familiarity. There is a general feeling that people
are familiar with each other as they stop to chat. One regular customer, Woody, who drives from
Raleigh to the CFM each week told me he values the inevitable social interactions and said that
what makes the CFM so special are its “synergy” and “copacetic relationships” between people
who frequent the market and the farmers. Woody then started telling me facts about a number of
different farmers and why he appreciates their “very hard work”. He was especially fond of
Heek’s Farm that specializes in winter crops. He likes that instead of using a greenhouse and
unnatural chemicals, the farmers grow the produce outdoors, manually preparing the land.
Woody’s knowledge on Heek’s Farm reminded me of a quote in an article that examines
consumer preferences at farmers’ markets in three metropolitan areas in North Carolina. The
authors quote one customer from Hillsborough, North Carolina as saying, “A good thing about
buying local is that you know the people [who] you’re buying from”.4
These types of relations
make the CFM a “community-defining” place.5
In addition to verbal communication that occurs directly between people at the CFM,
there is communication in the levels of intentionality in the presentation of goods at the market.
4
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, et al, “Communities, Supermarkets, and Local Food: Mapping
Connections and Obstacles in Food System Work in North Carolina,” 250.
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Colloredo-Mansfield et al, 252.

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The arrangements, decorations, and displays differ greatly, giving the space variability and
interest. Presentation styles at the CFM highlight the importance of adding meaning to the goods
sold at the market, revealing a balance of “traditionalism” and innovation in a contemporary
urban market setting. For example, depicted in Image 4, there are relatively simple tables that
feature produce in plastic bins with few decorative touches, though it is clear even the most basic
displays are put together with intention as the goods are placed in the same spots every week.
These stands more commonly sell fresh fruits and vegetables and meats as opposed to value-
added goods, and they are also the busiest.
Image 4 Peregrine Farm displays their produce in plastic bins.
In comparison, there are stands like Fiddlehead Farm’s that are highly decorated in a
purposeful old-timey aesthetic. Image 5 on the following page indicates this aesthetic with the
price list that is pasted inside a tin cake pan, the mason jars wrapped in craft paper labels, the
repurposed wooden shelf, and the handmade quilted sign with the farm name sewn onto it.
Contrasted to the simpler stands, I argue that these elaborate displays purposefully borrow rural
and older southern aesthetics that honor traditional ideals to sell their products, which in the case

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of Fiddlehead Farm’s are jams and other preserves. This is demonstrated in Whitney Brown’s
article “Eat It To Save It”, which examines CFM producer April McGregor’s conversation with
tradition and change. Referring to why she believes customers engaged in “locavorism” frequent
the CFM, Whitney writes, “Traditional, rural culture has always held a certain appeal for those
who are dissatisfied with mainstream… whatever it is, Americans love the idea of the farm”.6
This infatuation with rural and pastoral is prominent at the CFM, and producers like McGregor
say they are ‘“In conversation with tradition’ but not bound to it”, by selling products that use
iconic southern ingredients with techniques learned in San Francisco.7
Image 5 Fiddlehead Farm's decorated stand draws on traditional aesthetics.
Consumption
Though the market is a public sphere, foods are bought to be consumed in private at
home, bringing us to Glassie’s third step in the lifecycle of a text: consumption. People visit the
market with the purpose of buying and consuming local goods, and the social relations form
6
Whitney E Brown. “Eat It To Save It: April McGregor in Conversation with Tradition,”101.
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Brown, 95.

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from that point of common interest. The primary function of the market is economic-based, and
it must be understood that the CFM is a cultural product created within an economic context.8
Once foods are consumed at home, the cyclical process is renewed; farmers continue to grow
produce and raise livestock; each week vendors and customers communicate by their behavior
and displays at the market; and, local foods and goods are hand-selected to be eaten at home.
Once the selling hours are over, the pubic space loses the meanings given to it by the goods sold
at the market; the communication between farmers and customers; and the elaborate styles of
displays are packed up and put away until the following market day.
Literature Review
In order to further pursue this research, I compiled both folklore and urban geography
scholarship that examines the core questions my study brings up about southern and urban
contexts, tradition, and the meaning of presentation styles. These central issues have been
discussed at length by a number of scholars over time, creating a history that examines the
changes in those expressive cultures.
The American South
For many without ties to the American South, it is often viewed as static and as a
backwards place for backwards people. The South is sometimes overlooked and even deemed as
unimportant. But for those with ties to or knowledge of this region, it clearly speaks volumes. In
order to examine traditions at the CFM, it is necessary to first understand what constitutes a
southern urban context. Historian and former president of the University of Richmond, Edward
Ayers, writes that the South is more than simply a geographical locale. Specifically, it is also a
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Andreatta, Susan, and William Wickliffe. "Managing Farmer and Consumer Expectations: A
Study of a North Carolina Farmers Market”

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state of mind, he explains.9
Because the South is both tangible (geographical) and intangible (a
state of mind) it should be understood as dynamic, rather than static. Once there is understanding
that the South’s identity is constantly evolving and changing, Ayers explains why southern
traditions are still central in southern culture. He argues that the South has always been
challenged by outside forces placing it “on the edge of extinction”, and this has caused
southerners to be more protective of their culture.10
Therefore, southerners “try to recapture the
authentic history, untainted by time, change, or contact with the outside world.”11
Though
seemingly paradoxical, southern culture attempts to preserve “authentic” aspects of the past
while also “continually coming into being [and] continually being remade.”12
In Edward Ayers study of the South, he describes it is a place that is both loved and
hated, impossible to figure out, nostalgic, and at times even dull.13
All of these aspects make the
South a place of mystery where even the language “suggests there are hidden ligaments and
tissues holding it all together”.14
One part of the South’s mystery and attractive pull, which
aligns with my research, is food. Professor Marcie Ferris argues that the “meaning and influence
of food in southern history” lies in the dynamics of racism, sexism, class struggle, politics, and
environmental exploitation.15
To southerners, food holds a special place in their hearts, which
may be caused by food’s link to larger issues in the South. Dr. Ferris describes the South as a
place “of relationships fraught with conflict, yet bound by blood and land” and the traces are
9
Ayers, 65.
10
Ayers, 68.
11
Ayers, 69.
12
Ayers, 82.
13
Ayers, 64.
14
Ayers, 65.
15
Marcie Cohen Ferris. The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American
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visible in southern foodways.16
Like Ayers also explained, although it is a region with a history
of hostility and difference, the ligaments hold it firmly together.
In addition, I found photojournalist Kate Medley’s work with the Southern Foodways
Alliance on the CFM compelling. Medley photographed and interviewed many of the market
vendors, and created collages of their portraits coupled with their handwritten notes. They
provide primary information about the farmers’ and reveal their perspectives on issues such as
family dynamics, social networks, gender, and the importance of presentation styles. I, however,
also saw the bias in her images as they dramatize the market’s “authentic” experience. For
example, below is one of Medley’s photographs featuring CFM farmer Ken Dawson and his
handwritten note.17
The black and white photograph and handwritten text, however, create a
vintage, nostalgic feeling of market life, placing the farmer in one singular context. In effect, this
collage paints the market as quaint and picturesque where older farmers sell their goods. But the
market is much more diverse than what this photo depicts.
16
Ferris, 1.
17
Medley, SFA.

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Image 6 Farmer Ken Dawson. Photographed by Kate Medley.
These three perspectives on the South provide a framework in which to study the region
and its folklore. Ayers’s and Ferris’s works reveal that the South is to be thought of and studied
differently because history is central and the past prevalent in the present. This theme is
highlighted in scholarship about how to examine and understand the South, and why I thought it
was important to consider the South like a palimpsest, or something that has been altered yet still
bears visible traces of its earlier forms. I applied this reasoning to the farmers’ market because
Ayers’s, Ferris’s, and Medley’s work help explain why market producers hold interest in
tradition. In addition, Ferris’s work especially highlights food’s centrality in the South, while
Medley’s underlines the South’s fascination with the past, even at the market. After reading
quotes by Edna Lewis, I realized that the local food movement in the South might take on a
different meaning than in other regions in the United States. Continued research in southern

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place and food scholarship would further contextualize why the CFM takes on the character and
meanings that it does.
Urban Geography
In addition to its southern setting, the CFM is situated in an urban environment, which
impacts market traditions. In 1983, folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett argued that urban
folklore studies are crucial because creative expressions of the everyday in rural America are not
simply reproduced in urban settings, but instead urban folklore is produced, altered, and made
more intricate due to the levels of complexity in cities.18
Within urban settings, values and styles
are constantly being negotiated because what they ultimately express is meaning.19
She argues
“rituals of authentication”—techniques of claiming history as authoritative—are performed by
organizers and participators to reconstruct the past to fit the present day needs of urban
residents.20
In terms of the CFM, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s work is useful because it helps explain
why producers and consumers at the market are in search of an authentic experience, and why
they must find ways to illuminate their identity in places of diversity. This experience, she
argues, is one that resonates with the past and dramatizes the needs and desires of urban
residents. This idea is also related to Medley’s photographic work and the ways that she modifies
the past to dramatize the farmers’ authentic roles.
In addition to Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s folkloristic work, there are a number of
geographical publications that study farmers’ markets in urban settings. One article by Susan
Andreatta and William Wickliffe is especially useful as it looks at the cultural relationships
between farmers’ food-selling habits and consumers’ food-buying habits at farmers’ markets
18
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "The Future of Folklore Studies in America: The Urban
Frontier." Folklore Forum 16, no 2 (1983):175-234.
19
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, 221.
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Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, 187.

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near three metropolitan areas in North Carolina.21
In relation to these markets, the article conveys
how market successes could be improved by better understanding what urban residents want and
need. The authors take the position that in order to study the market, it must be understood that it
is a cultural product created within an economic context. This article is useful to further research
on the CFM because it takes an anthropological view of farmers’ markets and can be applied to
explain how relationships are formed in an urban economic setting.
Tradition
Tradition and innovation may appear paradoxical at first blush, but they go hand-in-hand
as traditions change over time and useful innovations present new options to groups that decide
what aspects matter, which they choose to value, and those they implement.22
Noyes writes that
“[B]y keeping up tradition, we remember where we came from. But performing tradition is more
than just an act of memory. We repeat what is meaningful to give order to our lives.”23
She
emphasizes that tradition is not static, but rather dynamic because groups are always
“reinventing” solutions to new problems. In her article, she looks at a diverse group of Italian
immigrants in Philadelphia who merge together to create traditions that fit their needs of living in
a new environment. These traditions, argues Noyes, become:
a source of group pride and identity based in culture inheritance
a path to economic survival and success
a source of individual pleasure, pride, and consolation in artistry
a means to expressing and confirming community
a shared language to ensure effective communication 24
Those uses of tradition can also be explained in the South when applied to Ayers’s scholarship
on southern culture. Like Ayers, Noyes writes that traditions are especially strong within groups
21
Andreatta and Wickliffe.
22
Dorothy Noyes. Uses of Tradition: Arts of Italian Americans in Philadelphia (1989), 13.
23
Ibid.
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Noyes, 14.

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that fall outside of the norm, or dominant culture, though Ayers focuses on the South.
Implementing Noyes’s functions of traditions in a southern context could expound questions of
traditionalism.
One article I discovered regarding tradition is set at the CFM, providing a case study on
April McGregor, who is the owner and proprietor of Farmer’s Daughter Brand, which is a
“artisan food business celebrating the flavors of the South” with fresh preserves, and her
exchanges with tradition. By featuring McGregor, Brown says traditions have the ability to
“[recreate]the sense of community… through food”.25
She argues by bringing “the people of
Carrboro [with] a common love of good, fresh food” and incorporating levels of tradition,
solutions to problems like global warming, anonymous food systems, and the absence or decline
of community can be resolved.26
Moreover, engaging with foods that have strong southern ties
can invite us to engage our memories and traditions, as well as affirm our identities and connect
to family members.27
As far as tradition goes, McGregor values the communion involved with
cooking, which she learned growing up in rural Mississippi town. She, however, is not bound by
“traditional” recipes. Instead, she “understand[s] that food is not sacrosanct, and traditions
evolve”.28
And while she honors her roots and does things the slow way, she creates original
recipes that accentuate southern staples with ingredients from around the world.
Brown’s article demonstrates how central the idea of tradition is to producers at the CFM
and how they converse with traditions without fully binding themselves to it. Like Noyes’s
article, Brown’s piece also speaks on how tradition unites people by linking them to a certain set
of ideals and meanings. The enacting of tradition can reveal aspects of what communities value
25
Brown, 94.
26
Brown, 95.
27
Brown, 97.
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Brown, 98.

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and how they identify themselves. Additional engagement with questions of tradition at the CFM
could reveal patterns between rural and urban, contextualizing how these two settings work
together to produce the marketplace.
Presentation
The southern urban context of the market and its relationship to tradition raises questions
of presentation styles and meaning. This mix of tradition in presentation is best seen in Kay
Turner’s Beautiful Necessity: Art and Meaning of Women’s Altars, first published in 1999.
Turner’s book explores spiritual tradition style altars remade by women around the United
States. She looks at the tradition of women’s altars and how the traditions are inherited and
changed. In addition, she studies the functions and meanings of altars and how women modify
and embellish them to represent certain ideas, values, and spiritual powers.
Though Turner’s work is on spiritual altar traditions created by women, her work’s
structure and the questions she raises are applicable to the CFM. Her work can be used to digest
the meaning of the relationship between aesthetics and social values at the market. Moreover,
Beautiful Necessity explains the importance of revealing the layers of meaning assembled
together in material culture, issues also presented in the Southern Foodways Alliance’s (SFA)
“Presentation is Everything” article on the CFM. Though short, the piece draws on quotes from
CFM producers, like Ken Dawson, who explain that at the market each week “it’s like building a
stage for a play.” Meaning, the work that goes into creating the stands takes considerable vision,
ability, and time.29
The vendors’ table displays, however, are not consistent. Specifically,
Dawson explains that there is competition at the market—“somebody is always raising the bar to
the next level.”30
As customers seek each season’s first harvests, the displays evolve and
29
"Presentation Is Everything." Southern Foodways Alliance (2016).
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Ibid.

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competition in presentation increases, revealing the dynamic structure of the market. In relation
to my own observational fieldwork, the SFA’s article contextualizes the reasoning in the
diversity in displays and why the market takes on a new look each week. While there are
consistent elements, the CFM’s presentations change as preferences and values continue to shift.
Conclusion
The research I conducted on the CFM combines observational fieldwork with folkloristic
and geographical scholarship to research place, material culture, and performance in a southern
urban market setting to understand the levels of sociality and presentation at the southern, urban
market. Through ethnographic observations, along with folklorist Henry Glassie’s structure for
studying the contexts of a text: creation, communication, and consumption, and the literature
review, this project examines patterns of performance and presentation that reveal exchanges
between tradition and innovation in the marketplace setting.
The CFM is a temporary economic and social space that accommodates sociality between
various groups of people, presents aesthetics inspired by traditional southern qualities, and
similar to Edna Lewis’s recollection of her experience in the South, the market is where bonds
are formed around local food. This interest is enacted in the market performance, which
identifies and illuminates the ways that people shape their expressive behavior in relation to their
lives and environment. In the market setting, rural and urban intersect, interactions between the
past and present thrive, and tradition and innovation are constantly being negotiated. By
examining aspects of creation, communication, and consumption, we see how people formulate
the organization of culture and give valuable meaning to a southern urban public space, making
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