Edward Twitchell Hall

Calls for and speculates on an extensive transcendence of individual cultures, of material and verbal extensions of the ego, and of the alienating denial of individual talents and powers

Beyond Culture

The Hidden Dimension

Designs for Knitting Kilt Hose and Knickerbocker Stockings

T. Hall

A study of the non-verbal language which exists in every culture, the elaborate patterns of behavior through which we communicate

The Silent Language

A dimensão oculta

An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal.

An anthropologist examines man's use of space in public and in private.

Manuel Alberto

Na sua obra 'A Dimensão Oculta', Edward Hall analisou os diferentes conceitos de espaço. Agora em 'A Dança da Vida' aborda o modo como o tempo é vivido pelos indivíduos em diferentes culturas. O tempo surge como um organizador de actividades, um factor de integração e uma linguagem particular que condiciona as relações sociais. Nas culturas do Norte, por exemplo, o tempo é entendido de modo linear e só permite habitualmente fazer uma coisa de cada vez. No Sul, em contraste, uma concepção pluridimensional do tempo permite o desenvolvimento de várias actividades simultâneas.

A dança da vida: a outra dimensão do tempo

Leading anthropologist Edward Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication amd considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages in this fascinating study. The Silent Language is a work of interest to both the intelligent general reader and the sophisticated social scientist.

In the everyday but unspoken give-and-take of human relationships, the silent language plays a vitally important role. Here, a leading American anthropologist has analyzed the many ways in which people talk to one another without the use of works. The pecking order in a chicken yard, the fierce competition in a school playground, every unwitting gesture and action-this is the vocabulary of the silent language. According to Dr. Hall, the concepts of space and time are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages. Space, for example, is the outgrowth of an animal's instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office worker's jealous defense of his desk, or the guarded, walled patio of a Latin-American home. Similarly, the concept of time, varying from Western precision to Eastern vagueness, Is revealed by the businessman who pointedly keeps a client waiting, or the South Pacific islander who murders his neighbor for an injustice suffered twenty years ago.

Edmund T. Hall

The autobiography of the world-renowned anthropologist and expert in intercultural communication.

Edward Twitchell Hall

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