edward t. hall

The anthropologist Edward T. Hall was born in Missouri in 1914. The foundation for his lifelong research on cultural perceptions of space was laid during World War II when he served in the U.S. Army in Europe and the Philippines. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1942 and did field work with Navajo, and Hopi, indians as well as with people throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. During the 1950s he worked for the United States State Department teaching inter-cultural communications skills to foreign service personnel. He taught at the University of Denver, Colorado, Bennington College in Vermont, Harvard Business School, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University in Illinois and others. Hall first identified the concept of proxemics, or personal spaces. In his book, The Hidden Dimension, he describes the subjective dimensions that surrounds someone and the physical distances one tries to keep away from other people according to subtle cultural rules.

Bibliography

The Silent Language, Doubleday, 1959
The Hidden Dimension, Doubleday,1966
Beyond Culture, Doubleday, 1976
The Dance of Life, The Other Dimension of Time, Doubleday, 1983
Hidden Differences: Studies in International Communication, Grunder & Jahr, 1983, 1984, 1985
Hidden Differences: Doing Business with the Japanese, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1987
Understanding Cultural Differences, Germans, French and Americans Intercultural Press, 1990

Hall, Edward T.

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