The following paper considers a series of inquiries that are the manifestation of a desire to comprehend the experiential nature of lived space. My perspective is anthropological with specific interest in material culture and ritual. I will discuss phenomenological staging as part of a whole research methodology consisting of two other basic precepts; biographic and ethnographic writing. Each of these systems of thought work to inform the other and cumulatively serve to help define the criteria for making ethno-specific propositions.