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Cultural Variations in Personal Space

1975; Wiley; Volume: 3; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/eth.1975.3.4.02a00020

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Mark Baldassare, Susan Feller,

Community Health and Development

EthosVolume 3, Issue 4 p. 481-503 Free Access Cultural Variations in Personal Space Theory, Methods, and Evidence Mark Baldassare, Mark Baldassare Mark Baldassare is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.Search for more papers by this authorSusan Feller, Susan Feller Susan Feller is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Hayward. The first author would like to acknowledge John Clausen, Zena Blau, and Claude Fischer for encouragement and advice in pursuing this work. The paper was prepared while he held a NIMH traineeship under training grant number 5-TOIMMO8268.Search for more papers by this author Mark Baldassare, Mark Baldassare Mark Baldassare is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.Search for more papers by this authorSusan Feller, Susan Feller Susan Feller is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Hayward. The first author would like to acknowledge John Clausen, Zena Blau, and Claude Fischer for encouragement and advice in pursuing this work. 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