Setha M. Low

(PhD UCB, 1976; Prof, PhD Program in Psychology) Anthropology of space and place, medical anthropology, urban anthropology, historic preservation, landscapes of fear, security/insecurity, and gating; Latin America, United States, cities of Western Europe ()

Selected Publications

• 2003 Behind the Gates: The New American Dream. New York and London: Routledge.
• 2003 The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture [with co-author Denise Lawrence-Zuñiga]. Oxford: Blackwell.
• 2000 On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture.. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• 1999 Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
• 1996 "Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space," American Ethnologist 23(4): 861-879.
• 1995 Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development and Malnutrition in Guatemala City [with co-author F. Johnston]. Boulder: Westview.
• 1995 "Indigenous Architectural Representations: Mesoamerican and Caribbean Foundations of the Spanish American Plaza," American Anthropologist 97(4): 748-762.

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