Social topologies (1/3). Tattoo interface

As objects of anthropological inquiry, a body, a house, and a territory each pose a similar set of questions in relation to notions of interiority/exteriority; identity/alterity; limit or boundary; and containment. The body, the house, and the territory “locate” these questions on different scales. I will address them through three case studies that overall take up Henri Lefebvre’s challenge to examine how spaces “interpenetrate one another.”[1] My purpose is to explore the relevance of using..