by Edward T. Hall · Anchor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385192484
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«The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time» is Edward T. Hall's essay on time, published by Anchor in paperback (250 pages, in English).
Edward T. Hall analyzes how time organizes social life and acts as a language that reveals feelings. He compares cultures with different rhythms, such as American and Japanese, and the relationships among Western Europeans, Latin Americans, Anglo-Americans and Native Americans, as well as the concepts of monochronic and polychronic time.
Paperback reissue of a work originally published in hardcover in 1983; includes bibliographic references (pp. 233-241) and index.
Aimed at readers interested in the relationship between culture, time and interpersonal communication.
Edward Twitchell Hall Jr. was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space. Hall was an influential colleague of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller.
