Godina izdanja: -
ISBN: 0385055498
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Edward T. Hall - The Silent Language
Anchor Books, -
209 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

A leading American anthropologist analyzes the many vitally important ways in which people `talk` to one another without the use of words.

`The Silent Language shows how cultural factors influence the individual behind his back, without his knowledge.` —Erich Fromm

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 Easter 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.

Contents:
The voices of time
What is culture?
The vocabulary of culture
The major triad
Culture is communication
The pervasive set
The illusive isolate
The organizing pattern
Time talks: American accents
Space speaks
Loosening the grip
Appendix I: Schema for social scientists
Appendix II: A map of culture
Appendix III: Three examples of change
Appendix IV: Selected bibliography


Nonfiction, Anthropology, 0385055498