The Dance of Life The Other Dimension of Time

by HALL, EDWARD T.

• ISBN13: 9780385192484
• ISBN10: 0385192487
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-02-09
• Publisher: Anchor

Summary

First published in 1983, this book studies how people are tied together and yet isolated by hidden threads of rhythm and walls of time. Time is treated as a language, organizer, and message system revealing people's feelings about each other and reflecting differences between cultures.

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

Foreword	1	(2)
Introduction	3	(10)
Part I TIME AS CULTURE
How Many Kinds of Time?	13	(15)
Different Streams	28	(16)
Monochronic and Polychronic Time	44	(15)
High and Low Context Messages	59	(19)
Culture's Clocks: Nuer, Tiv, and Quiche Time	78	(13)
The East and the West	91	(17)
The French, the Germans, and the Americans	108	(19)
Part II TIME AS EXPERIENCE
Experiencing Time	127	(26)
The Dance of Life	153	(24)
Entrainment	177	(17)
God Is in the Details	194	(12)
Appendix I A Map of Time	206	(2)
Appendix II Japanese and American Contrasts, with Special Reference to the MA	208	(8)
Notes	216	(12)
Glossary	228	(5)
Bibliography	233	(9)
Index	242