Image from Coce

The hidden dimension / Edward T. Hall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, 1990Description: xiii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385084765
  • 9780385084765
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 304.23 23
LOC classification:
  • BF469 .H3 1990
Contents:
Culture as communication -- Distance regulation in animals -- Crowding and social behavior in animals -- Perception of space: distance receptors -- eyes, ears, and nose -- Perception of space: immediate receptors - skin and muscles -- Visual space -- Art as a clue to perception -- The language of space -- The anthropology of space: an organizing model -- Distances in man -- Proxemics in a cross-cultural context: Germans, English, and French -- Proxemics in a cross-cultural context: Japan and the Arab world -- Cities and culture -- Proxemics and the future of man -- Summary of James Gibson's Thirteen Varieties of Perspective as abstracted from The Perception of the Visual World.
Summary: Hall examines the various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. The Hidden Dimension demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal and business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. Illustrated.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1966.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culture as communication -- Distance regulation in animals -- Crowding and social behavior in animals -- Perception of space: distance receptors -- eyes, ears, and nose -- Perception of space: immediate receptors - skin and muscles -- Visual space -- Art as a clue to perception -- The language of space -- The anthropology of space: an organizing model -- Distances in man -- Proxemics in a cross-cultural context: Germans, English, and French -- Proxemics in a cross-cultural context: Japan and the Arab world -- Cities and culture -- Proxemics and the future of man -- Summary of James Gibson's Thirteen Varieties of Perspective as abstracted from The Perception of the Visual World.

Hall examines the various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. The Hidden Dimension demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal and business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. Illustrated.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha