Lucie Mizzi

Lucie Mizzi is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (UMR SENS). Her research focuses on social and spatial marginality, sociability, and commercial exchanges. She is currently conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Hyōgo Prefecture among tekiya street vendors. Her work analyzes the economic and social organization of this corporation, their modes of self-presentation, and the changes that have taken place over the past forty years.

The project

Title: Commerce ambulant, une marginalité sociale en question au Japon. Passé, présent et devenir de la corporation des vendeurs de rue tekiya