The anthropology of space and place : locating culture / edited by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga. - ix, 422 pages ; 25 cm. - Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 4 . - Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 4. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Locating Culture / Embodied Spaces. Proxemics / Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America / Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape / Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities / Gendered Spaces. The Berber House / The Sweetness of Home: Class, Culture and Family Life in Sweden / The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa / Inscribed Spaces. Emergence and Convergence in some African Sacred Places / Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality / Open Spaces and Dwelling Places: Being at Home on Hill Farms in the Scottish Borders / Contested Spaces. The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space / Myth, Space, and Virtue: Bars, Gender, and Change in Barcelona's Barrio Chino / Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community / Transnational Spaces. Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade / The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism / Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography / Spatial Tactics. Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulation: Some Reflections on Urbanism / A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town / After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site / The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear / Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga -- Edward T. Hall. Miles Richardson. Nancy D. Munn. Alessandro Duranti -- Pierre Bourdieu. Orvar Lofgren. Deborah Pellow -- James Fernandez. Margaret C. Rodman. John Gray -- Hilda Kuper. Gary Wray McDonogh. Steven Gregory -- Theodore C. Bestor. Akhil Gupta. Arjun Appadurai -- Paul Rabinow. Michael Herzfeld. Eric Gable and Richard Handler. Setha M. Low. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. II. 5. 6. 7. Pt. III. 8. 9. 10. Pt. IV. 11. 12. 13. Pt. V. 14. 15. 16. Pt. VI. 17. 18. 19. 20.

"The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key articles presented explicitly for students and researchers in anthropology, environmental psychology, sociology, architecture, geography and urban planning. The volume includes an introduction that synthesizes existing literature, highlights core issues, and maps potential directions for future research."--BOOK JACKET.

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Human geography
Human territoriality
Spatial behavior.
Personal space
Open spaces
Public spaces

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