The Flea Market Project was organized as an experiential learning project for the Fall 1991 Economic Anthropology class, then was carried on by the faculty-student research team during Spring-Fall 1992 as a Practicum in Anthropology class.   The research team conducted an ethnographic study of flea marketing in Appalachian Southwest Virginia using interviewing, observation, participant-observation, censuses, and mapping fieldwork methods. 

Flea Market Project, 1991-93

  1. -An ethnographic study of the socio-economics of flea marketing in Appalachian Southwestern Virginia conducted by a Radford University Economic Anthropology class research team.


  1. -The team's research findings were presented in a paper entitled Making a Buck: Social and Economic Adaptations in an Appalachian Flea Market, written for the 1993 Appalachian Studies Associations conference.  To read the web publication of Making a Buck, click here: Making A Buck.pdf

1991-92 Research Team: Elizabeth Godoy, Diane Halsall, and Deanna Matthews.

Please cite all research from this web publication as:
LaLone, Mary B., Elizabeth Godoy, Diane Halsall, and Deanna Matthews
1993 “Making a Buck: Social and Economic Adaptations in an Appalachian Flea Market.”  Paper presented at the Appalachian Studies Association         conference,  Johnson City, TN, 1993.  Radford, VA: Department of Sociology and Anthropology,  Radford University. Electronic document: URL information.