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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
DEBORAH PELLOW is Professor of Anthropology in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
