Format:
XII, 209 S.
ISBN:
0385055498
,
9780385055499
Series Statement:
An anchor book
Content:
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 animals instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office workers 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
Content:
Includes information on American culture, Americans overseas, Arabs, formal cultural systems, informal cultural systems, Middle East, Navajo, patterns, Pueblo Indians, sets, space, Spanish culture, time, etc
Note:
Bibliogr. S. 203 - 204
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
,
Psychology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Mittelbare Kommunikation
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Interpersonale Kommunikation
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Nichtverbale Kommunikation
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Nichtverbale Kommunikation
Author information:
Hall, Edward Twitchell 1914-2009
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