Proxemic studies concentrate on the structure and organization of space, its design and use, allocation, and the relations encoded in it as aspects of cultural communication. Space is perceived through the senses, and since cultures use the senses differently, they create boundaries differently. Pellow, in her edited collection of boundary studies, focuses on the social conception and production of boundedness. The essays by 10 scholars, eight of them anthropologists, explore the nature of boundaries in terms of change, space and place, society and culture, politics, class, urbanization, housing, and secular and spiritual life.…mehr
Proxemic studies concentrate on the structure and organization of space, its design and use, allocation, and the relations encoded in it as aspects of cultural communication. Space is perceived through the senses, and since cultures use the senses differently, they create boundaries differently. Pellow, in her edited collection of boundary studies, focuses on the social conception and production of boundedness. The essays by 10 scholars, eight of them anthropologists, explore the nature of boundaries in terms of change, space and place, society and culture, politics, class, urbanization, housing, and secular and spiritual life.
DEBORAH PELLOW is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University and author of Women in Accra and Ghana: Coping with Uncertainty.
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Illustrations Foreword by Edward T. Hall Preface Introduction The Multidimensional Nature of Boundaries: Social Classifications, Human Ecology and Domesticity by Roderick J. Lawrence Boundaries in France by Susan Carlisle Tearing Down the Fences: Public Gardens and Municipal Power in Nineteenth Century Vienna, Austria by Robert Rotenberg Tourism and the Emergence of Design Self-Consciousness in a Rural Portuguese Town by Denise Lawrence Boundaries of Home in Toronto Housing Cooperatives by Margaret Rodman and Matthew Cooper Intimate Boundaries: A Chinese Puzzle by Deborah Pellow The Spatial Layout of Hierarchy: Residential Style of the Modern Japanese Nobility by Takie Sugiyama Lebra Constructing Differences: Spatial Boundaries and Social Change in Two Costa Rican Plazas by Setha M. Low Negotiating Boundaries: A Perspective From Nigeria by Renee Pittin Boundaries Real and Imagined by Graeme J. Hardie Concluding Thoughts by Deborah Pellow Index
Illustrations Foreword by Edward T. Hall Preface Introduction The Multidimensional Nature of Boundaries: Social Classifications, Human Ecology and Domesticity by Roderick J. Lawrence Boundaries in France by Susan Carlisle Tearing Down the Fences: Public Gardens and Municipal Power in Nineteenth Century Vienna, Austria by Robert Rotenberg Tourism and the Emergence of Design Self-Consciousness in a Rural Portuguese Town by Denise Lawrence Boundaries of Home in Toronto Housing Cooperatives by Margaret Rodman and Matthew Cooper Intimate Boundaries: A Chinese Puzzle by Deborah Pellow The Spatial Layout of Hierarchy: Residential Style of the Modern Japanese Nobility by Takie Sugiyama Lebra Constructing Differences: Spatial Boundaries and Social Change in Two Costa Rican Plazas by Setha M. Low Negotiating Boundaries: A Perspective From Nigeria by Renee Pittin Boundaries Real and Imagined by Graeme J. Hardie Concluding Thoughts by Deborah Pellow Index
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