The performance of secrecy: Domesticity and privacy in public spaces

Semiotica

Volumn 2009, Issue 175, 2009, Pages 135-162

  Herzfeld, Michael ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Architectonics; Cultural intimacy; Gesture; Secrecy; Social interaction; Spatiality

Indexed keywords

EID: 66649115256     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.2009.044     Document Type: Review

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