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Anthropology of space and place : locating culture

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Maldan Blackwell Publishing 2012Description: x,422pISBN:
  • 9780631228783
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DDC classification:
  • 304.2 LOW
Contents:
CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Locating Culture 1 Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga Part I: Embodied Spaces. 49 1. Proxemics. (Edward T. Hall). 51 2. Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America. (Miles Richardson) 74 3. Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape. (Nancy D. Munn) 92 4. Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities. (Alessandro Duranti) 110 Part II: Gendered Spaces. 129 5. The Berber House. (Pierre Bourdieu) 131 6. The Sweetness of Home: Class, Culture and Family Life in Sweden. (Orvar Löfgren) 142 7. The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa. (Deborah Pellow). 160 Part III: Inscribed Spaces 185 8. Emergence and Convergence in some African Sacred Places. (James Fernandez) 187 9. Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality. (Margaret C. Rodman) 204 10. Open Spaces and Dwelling Places: Being at Home on Hill Farms in the Scottish Borders. (John Gray). 224 Part IV: Contested Spaces). 245 11. The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space. (Hilda Kuper). 247 12. Myth, Space, and Virtue: Bars, Gender, and Change in Barcelona’s Barrio Chino. (Gary Wray McDonogh) 264 13. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. (Steven Gregory). 284 Part V: Transnational Spaces. 299 14. The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism. (Akhil Gupta) 301 15. Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography. (Arjun Appadurai). 321 16. Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade. (Theodore C. Bestor). 337 Part VI: Spatial Tactics 351 17. Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulation: Some Reflections on Urbanism. (Paul Rabinow) 353 18. A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town. (Michael Herzfeld) 363 19. After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site. (Eric Gable and Richard Handler) 370 20. The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear. (Setha M. Low) 387 Index 408
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Locating Culture 1
Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga
Part I: Embodied Spaces. 49
1. Proxemics. (Edward T. Hall). 51
2. Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America. (Miles Richardson) 74
3. Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape. (Nancy D. Munn) 92
4. Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities. (Alessandro Duranti) 110
Part II: Gendered Spaces. 129
5. The Berber House. (Pierre Bourdieu) 131
6. The Sweetness of Home: Class, Culture and Family Life in Sweden. (Orvar Löfgren) 142
7. The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa. (Deborah Pellow). 160
Part III: Inscribed Spaces 185
8. Emergence and Convergence in some African Sacred Places. (James Fernandez) 187
9. Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality. (Margaret C. Rodman) 204
10. Open Spaces and Dwelling Places: Being at Home on Hill Farms in the Scottish Borders. (John Gray). 224
Part IV: Contested Spaces). 245
11. The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space. (Hilda Kuper). 247
12. Myth, Space, and Virtue: Bars, Gender, and Change in Barcelona’s Barrio Chino. (Gary Wray McDonogh) 264
13. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. (Steven Gregory). 284
Part V: Transnational Spaces. 299
14. The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism. (Akhil Gupta) 301
15. Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography. (Arjun Appadurai). 321
16. Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade. (Theodore C. Bestor). 337
Part VI: Spatial Tactics 351
17. Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulation: Some Reflections on Urbanism. (Paul Rabinow) 353
18. A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town. (Michael Herzfeld) 363
19. After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site. (Eric Gable and Richard Handler) 370
20. The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear. (Setha M. Low) 387
Index 408

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