Locating culture -- Proxemics -- Being-in-the-market versus being-in-the-plaza: material culture and the construction of social reality in Spanish America -- Excluded spaces: the figure in the Australian Aboriginal landscape -- Indexical speech across Samoan communities -- The berber house -- The sweetness of home: class, culture and family life in Sweden -- The architecture of female seclusion in West Africa -- Emergence and convergence in some African sacred places -- Empowering place: multilocality and multivocality -- Open spaces and dwelling places: being at home on hill farms in the Scottish Borders -- The language of sites in the politics of space -- Myth, space, and virtue: bars, gender, and change in Barcelona's barrio chino -- Black Corona: race and the politics of place in an urban community -- Markets and places: Tokyo and the global tuna trade -- The song of the nonaligned world: transnational identities and the reinscription of space in late capitalism -- Sovereignty without territoriality: notes for a postnational geography -- Ordonnance, discipline, regulation: some reflections on urbanism -- A place in history: social and monumental time in a Cretan town -- After authenticity at an American heritage site -- The edge and the center: gated communities and the discourse of urban fear