Beyond Culture

by HALL, EDWARD T.

• ISBN13: 9780385124744
• ISBN10: 0385124740
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1976-12-07
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

Edward T. Hall opens up new dimensions of understanding and perception of human experience by helping us rethink our values in constructive ways.

Author Biography

Edward T. Hall was a widely traveled anthropologist whose fieldwork took him all over the world—from the Pueblo cultures of the American Southwest to Europe and the Middle East. As director of the State Department’s Point Four Training Program in the 1950s, Dr. Hall’s mission was to teach foreign-bound technicians and administrators how to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. He was a consultant to architects on human factors in design and to business and government agencies in the field of intercultural relations, and had taught at the University of Denver, Bennington College, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Harvard Business School, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University.
            Dr. Hall was born in Webster Groves, Missouri. He received an A.B. degree from the University of Denver, and M.A. from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, until his death in 2009.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
1. The Paradox of Culture	9	(16)
2. Man as Extension	25	(16)
3. Consistency and Life	41	(16)
4. Hidden Culture	57	(14)
5. Rhythm and Body Movement	71	(14)
6. Context and Meaning	85	(20)
7. Contexts, High and Low	105	(12)
8. Why Context?	117	(12)
9. Situation--Culture's Building Block	129	(12)
10. Action Chains	141	(12)
11. Covert Culture and Action Chains	153	(16)
12. Imagery and Memory	169	(20)
13. Cultural and Primate Bases of Education	189	(24)
14. Culture as an Irrational Force	213	(10)
15. Culture as Identification	223	(18)
Notes	241	(24)
Bibliography	265	(16)
Index	281