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.