Human Territories: How We Behave In Space-Time
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Pages: Good
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What does it mean to truly *inhabit* a space — and how do our bodies, relationships, and social rituals silently negotiate the invisible boundaries we draw around ourselves every day? Human Territories: How We Behave in Space-Time presents a rigorous and revelatory study of proxemics and human spatial behaviour, chronicling the complex, often unconscious ways in which people claim, share, defend, and surrender physical and social territory. Drawing on fields ranging from ethology to psychiatry, Scheflen and Ashcraft argue that our use of space is not incidental but deeply structured — a silent language that governs everything from intimate encounters to urban crowd dynamics. Grounded in the tradition of environmental psychology and nonverbal communication pioneered by scholars such as Edward T. Hall, this work situates human territorial behaviour within the broader framework of culture, biology, and architecture. Scheflen's background as a psychiatrist and systems theorist lends the text an analytical precision that is both clinical and humanistic, illustrating how space-time coordinates are as socially constructed as the languages we speak. A landmark contribution to the understanding of human ecology, this volume leaves the reader questioning every room they enter and every distance they keep.
Author: Albert E. Scheflen With Norman Ashcraft
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to truly *inhabit* a space — and how do our bodies, relationships, and social rituals silently negotiate the invisible boundaries we draw around ourselves every day? Human Territories: How We Behave in Space-Time presents a rigorous and revelatory study of proxemics and human spatial behaviour, chronicling the complex, often unconscious ways in which people claim, share, defend, and surrender physical and social territory. Drawing on fields ranging from ethology to psychiatry, Scheflen and Ashcraft argue that our use of space is not incidental but deeply structured — a silent language that governs everything from intimate encounters to urban crowd dynamics. Grounded in the tradition of environmental psychology and nonverbal communication pioneered by scholars such as Edward T. Hall, this work situates human territorial behaviour within the broader framework of culture, biology, and architecture. Scheflen's background as a psychiatrist and systems theorist lends the text an analytical precision that is both clinical and humanistic, illustrating how space-time coordinates are as socially constructed as the languages we speak. A landmark contribution to the understanding of human ecology, this volume leaves the reader questioning every room they enter and every distance they keep.