Anthropology of Space and Place Locating Culture

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Pub. Date: 2003-02-04
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Setha M. Low is Professor of Environmental Psychology and Anthropology and Director of the Public Space Research Group at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her publications include Behind the Gates: The New American Dream (2003), On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (2000), and Theorizing the City (edited, 1999).


Denise Lawrence-Zúñigais Professor of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is the co-editor of House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe (with Donna Birdwell-Pheasant, 1999).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Locating Culture 1(48)
Setha M. Low
Denise Lawrence-Zuniga
Part I Embodied Spaces 49(80)
Proxemics
51(23)
Edward T. Hall
Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America
74(18)
Miles Richardson
Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape
92(18)
Nancy D. Munn
Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities
110(19)
Alessandro Duranti
Part II Gendered Spaces 129(56)
The Berber House
131(11)
Pierre Bourdieu
The Sweetness of Home: Class, Culture and Family Life in Sweden
142(18)
Orvar Lofgren
The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa
160(25)
Deborah Pellow
Part III Inscribed Spaces 185(60)
Emergence and Convergence in some African Sacred Places
187(17)
James Fernandez
Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality
204(20)
Margaret C. Rodman
Open Spaces and Dwelling Places: Being at Home on Hill Farms in the Scottish Borders
224(21)
John Gray
Part IV Contested Spaces 245(54)
The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space
247(17)
Hilda Kuper
Myth, Space, and Virtue: Bars, Gender, and Change in Barcelona's Barrio Chino
264(20)
Gary Wray McDonogh
Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
284(15)
Steven Gregory
Part V Transnational Spaces 299(52)
Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade
301(20)
Theodore C. Bestor
The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism
321(16)
Akhil Gupta
Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography
337(14)
Arjun Appadurai
Part VI Spatial Tactics 351(57)
Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulation: Some Reflections on Urbanism
353(10)
Paul Rabinow
A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
363(7)
Michael Herzfeld
After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site
370(17)
Eric Gable
Richard Handler
The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear
387(21)
Setha M. Low
Index 408

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