Acknowledgments

Locating Culture

Setha M. Low

Denise Lawrence-Zuniga

Part I Embodied Spaces

Proxemics

Edward T. Hall

Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material Culture and the Construction of Social Reality in Spanish America

Miles Richardson

Excluded Spaces: The Figure in the Australian Aboriginal Landscape

Nancy D. Munn

Indexical Speech across Samoan Communities

Alessandro Duranti

Part II Gendered Spaces

The Berber House

Pierre Bourdieu

The Sweetness of Home: Class, Culture and Family Life in Sweden

Orvar Lofgren

The Architecture of Female Seclusion in West Africa

Deborah Pellow

Part III Inscribed Spaces

Emergence and Convergence in some African Sacred Places

James Fernandez

Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality

Margaret C. Rodman

Open Spaces and Dwelling Places: Being at Home on Hill Farms in the Scottish Borders

John Gray

Part IV Contested Spaces

The Language of Sites in the Politics of Space

Hilda Kuper

Myth, Space, and Virtue: Bars, Gender, and Change in Barcelona's Barrio Chino

Gary Wray McDonogh

Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community

Steven Gregory

Part V Transnational Spaces

Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Tuna Trade

Theodore C. Bestor

The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism

Akhil Gupta

Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography

Arjun Appadurai

Part VI Spatial Tactics

Ordonnance, Discipline, Regulation: Some Reflections on Urbanism

Paul Rabinow

A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town

Michael Herzfeld

After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site

Eric Gable

Richard Handler

The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear

Setha M. Low

Index