The Silent LanguageIn the everyday but unspoken give-and-take of human relationships, the silent language plays a vitally important role. Here, a leading American anthropologist has analyzed the many ways in which people talk to one another without the use of works. The pecking order in a chicken yard, the fierce competition in a school playground, every unwitting gesture and action-this is the vocabulary of the silent language. According to Dr. Hall, the concepts of space and time are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages. Space, for example, is the outgrowth of an animal's instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office worker's jealous defense of his desk, or the guarded, walled patio of a Latin-American home. Similarly, the concept of time, varying from Western precision to Eastern vagueness, Is revealed by the businessman who pointedly keeps a client waiting, or the South Pacific islander who murders his neighbor for an injustice suffered twenty years ago. |
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... screw thread example is picked up at the point where different manufacturers are in the process of giving up their own informal thread design and are willing to submit to the standardizing dictates of the technical . The southwest ...
... screw thread example is picked up at the point where different manufacturers are in the process of giving up their own informal thread design and are willing to submit to the standardizing dictates of the technical . The southwest ...
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... SCREW THREAD One would not expect that something as technical and mundane as the screw thread of nuts and bolts would illustrate , by its history , how changes are made at one point in time and deeply resisted at another . The fact that ...
... SCREW THREAD One would not expect that something as technical and mundane as the screw thread of nuts and bolts would illustrate , by its history , how changes are made at one point in time and deeply resisted at another . The fact that ...
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... screw thread had been born technically , drifted through a long formal phase , and had at last returned to the technical sphere . In much the same way , American resistance to adoption of the metric system ( a Napoleonic innovation ) is ...
... screw thread had been born technically , drifted through a long formal phase , and had at last returned to the technical sphere . In much the same way , American resistance to adoption of the metric system ( a Napoleonic innovation ) is ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
chapter two WHAT IS CULTURE? 43 | 43 |
chapter three THE VOCABULARY OF CULTURE | 57 |
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