Introduction (Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga).

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).

10. Open Spaces and Dwelling Places: Being at Home on Hill Farms
in the Scottish Borders. (John Gray).

Part IV: Contested Spaces).

11. The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space. (Hilda
Kuper).

12. Myth, Space, and Virtue: Bars, Gender, and Change in
Barcelona's Barrio Chino. (Gary Wray McDonogh).

13. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban
Community. (Steven Gregory).

Part V: Transnational Spaces.

14. The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities
and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism. (Akhil
Gupta).

15. Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational
Geography. (Arjun Appadurai).

16. Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade.
(Theodore C. Bestor).

Part VI: Spatial Tactics.

17. Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulation: Some Reflections on
Urbanism. (Paul Rabinow).

18. A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan
Town. (Michael Herzfeld).

19. After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site. (Eric Gable
and Richard Handler).

20. The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse
of Urban Fear. (Setha M. Low).

Index.

'A valuable resource for teaching and research. Bringing
older work on the symbolics of space together with more recent
analyses of the politics of place and contested spatial practices,
it gives a fine overview of the depth, range, and vitality of
anthropological approaches to space and place.' James
Ferguson, University of California, Irvine

'This stunning collection provides an invaluable guide to
an exciting new field: The analysis of the spatial dimensions of
culture and the cultural meanings of space and place. It features a
clear and comprehensive introduction and a wide-ranging set of
articles that reveal the power and potential of this new field of
anthropological inquiry.' Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley
College

'A rich sourcebook of classic and new perspectives on
culture and the physical environment. Encompasses a range of spaces
and places from the small-scale to the large-scale; from the body
to transnational settings. A terrific resource to spark new
questions, ideas, and projects.' Irwin Altman, University
of Utah

"Geographers should of course read The Anthropology of Space
and Place. Reading this volume also opens up opportunities to
refine our strengths as geographers as well as to open up new
domains of exploration inspired by the expertise of
anthropologists." Progress in Human Geography, Vol 29/1,
2005

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).

S. M. Low, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA; D. Lawrence-Zu?iga, California State Polytechnic University, USA