The Silent LanguageLeading anthropologist Edward Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication amd considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages in this fascinating study. The Silent Language is a work of interest to both the intelligent general reader and the sophisticated social scientist. |
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Page 119
... experience nor held up to the mirror of experience . Moreover , it cannot be tested against some mystical thing thought of as experience . Experience is something man projects upon the out- side world as he gains it in its culturally ...
... experience nor held up to the mirror of experience . Moreover , it cannot be tested against some mystical thing thought of as experience . Experience is something man projects upon the out- side world as he gains it in its culturally ...
Page 121
... experience in terms of which everything can be judged or measured . All cultures , rather , can be said to be relative to each other on the pattern level . There is a growing accumulation of evidence to in- dicate that man has no direct ...
... experience in terms of which everything can be judged or measured . All cultures , rather , can be said to be relative to each other on the pattern level . There is a growing accumulation of evidence to in- dicate that man has no direct ...
Page 192
... experience by living . There is no experience independ- ent of culture against which culture can be measured . 8. Cultural indeterminacy and cultural relativity are not easy concepts for the layman to grasp . They mean more than what is ...
... experience by living . There is no experience independ- ent of culture against which culture can be measured . 8. Cultural indeterminacy and cultural relativity are not easy concepts for the layman to grasp . They mean more than what is ...
Contents
chapter one THE VOICES OF TIME | 1 |
chapter two WHAT IS CULTURE? | 20 |
chapter three THE VOCABULARY | 34 |
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