The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
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"Hall, whose Beyond Culture and The Silent Language won a wider readership, has written a ground-breaking investigation of the ways we use and abuse time, rich in insights applicable to our lives. Business readers will enjoy the cross-cultural comparison of American know-how with practices of compartmentalized German, centralized French, and ceremonious Japanese firms." --Publishers Weekly In his pioneering work The Hidden Dimension, Edward T. Hall spoke of different cultures' concepts of space. Now The Dance of Life reveals the ways in which individuals in culture are tied together by invisible threads of rhythm and yet isolated from each other by hidden walls of time. Hall shows how time is an organizer of activities, a synthesizer and integrator, and a special langauge that reveals how we really feel about each other. Time plays a central role in the diversity of cultures such as the American and the Japanese, which Hall shows to be mirror images of each other. He also deals with how time influences relations among Western Europeans, Latin Americans, Anglo-Americans, and Native Americans.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0385192487
ISBN13:9780385192484
Release Date:March 1984
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.57 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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got intellectual curiosity?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Edward T Hall is amazing. If you want to awaken your mind & think newly - read Hall. All his books leave me wide awake, wondering & grateful fo his rare intelligence.
A must-have for understanding cultural perceptions of time.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book blew my mind back when it was first released, and on third or fourth read, there is still so much information to be gleaned from it.Issues discussed:Appointments by time vs. being late because a friend in need is more important.Queueing for the bus vs. pushing and shoving to the front of the line.Needing closure vs. pigeon-holing a half-completed but unimportant task, often for months or even years.But most importantly, the book goes in great detail into how these cultural differences in the perception of time and sequence affect interactions between the races and between nations. I highly recommend Dance of Life not only for international travellers but also for anyone who has to deal with other cultures.
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