Anthropology of Space and Place Locating Culture [Paperback]

• Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place
• Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life
• Includes introduction that synthesizes existing literature, highlights core issues, and maps potential directions for future research
• Brings classics in cultural anthropology together with new theoretical approaches

Part I: Embodied Spaces.

1. Proxemics. (Edward T. Hall).

2. Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America. (Miles Richardson).

3. Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape. (Nancy D. Munn).

4. Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities. (Alessandro Duranti).

Part II: Gendered Spaces.

5. The Berber House. (Pierre Bourdieu).

6. The Sweetness of Home: Class, Culture and Family Life in Sweden. (Orvar Löfgren).

7. The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa. (Deborah Pellow).

Part III: Inscribed Spaces.

8. Emergence and Convergence in some African Sacred Places. (James Fernandez).

9. Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality. (Margaret C. Rodman).

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