Life takes space very seriously. Every organism depends on its capacity to engage with its
environment and every form of life reaches out to deal with space in some way or another …

The role that territories and boundaries play in human affairs needs little intro. duction. Quite
apart from the fact that many activities are organized on a terri-torial basis, a significant …

This paper discusses the nature and value of the concept of territoriality, using empirical
data derived from a case-study of domestic life in the Yerania district of Piraeus, Greece. It is …

Human territorialisation (Chiesi, 2015) is a spontaneous and fundamental social process
that has been the subject of intense debate since the mid-twentieth century. This debate has …

The word 'territory'is commonly used to refer to an area of land claimed by a state, or to a
'homeland'associated with, or claimed by, a national grouping seeking self-determination …

This study examines the principles we apply, when people, objects and animals are to be
organized in relation to other representatives of their kind. Most cross-cultural studies on …

Traditionally, area studies determined their object of research with re gard to areas that were
constructed as territorially fixed, politically and geographically defined, and socially and …

The concept of 'sustaining communities' has been mobilised in myriad ways across
academic, political and policy domains, despite the tendency of the term to defy easy …

Human conduct is always situated in a particular space or place yet little is understood about
the social organisational relationship between space, place and conduct. In pursuing a …

The Anthropology of Landscape is a relatively recent direction in contemporary
anthropology. The term became popular through the volumes edited by Hirsch and …