Anthropology of Space and Place Locating

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.

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).

Acknowledgments

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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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