Edward T. Hall

Thinkers1914 to 2009Anthropologist

Works

  • The Silent Language, 1959
  • The Hidden Dimension, 1966

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An American anthropologist who studied how cultures communicate without words. He named proxemics, the study of how people use space, and described zones of intimate, personal, social, and public distance in The Hidden Dimension.

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