Edward T. Hall
Edward T. Hall
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, a 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 May 1914
CountryUnited States of America
Edward T. Hall quotes about
jobs real years
Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
details-of-life culture attention
One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
sitting culture characteristics
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
culture made evolve
Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
time wall people
People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along....
body slow-motion realizing
Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.
differences interest-in-life way
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
zoos culture break-out
Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.
world whole-world whole
Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
interesting study sometimes
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.
strong teaching learning
The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer
few meant people radical understood willing
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
evolved fantastic himself incredible knows man reservoir
How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.