ABSTRACT
A restricted area like a club, a theatre or a nation-state has a set of rules to determine how its boundary shall be crossed and who shall occupy that space. Structural relationships, such as in hierarchies or other ranking patterns, and systems of relationships like those of kinship, are treated in this volume as ‘social maps’, which are frequently, but not necessarily, realised on ‘the ground’ by the placing of individuals in space. Time, then, is particularly closely associated with space. Indeed, for some, space and time are homologous. Drid Williams, for example, in her description of the daily routine of the Carmelite nuns shows how her situation in space can always be told by her situation in time. The Matapuquio women Skar describes are free to participate in political discussions, which are held in public. Political expression in England takes place, of course, in many theatres of action other than the Palace of Westminster.
