Anthropology of Space and Place Locating Culture

by Low, Setha M.; Lawrence-Zúñiga, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780631228776
• ISBN10: 0631228772
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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