{"product_id":"the-silent-language-9780385055499","title":"The Silent Language","description":"\u003cb\u003eA leading American anthropologist analyzes the many vitally important ways in which people \"talk\" to one another without the use of words. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Silent Language\u003c\/i\u003e shows how cultural factors influence the individual behind his back, without his knowledge.\" --Erich Fromm \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003espace\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003etime\u003c\/i\u003e are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages. \u003ci\u003eSpace\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003etime\u003c\/i\u003e, varying from Western precision to Easter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDWARD T. HALL was a widely traveled anthropologist whose fieldwork took him all over the world--from the Pueblo cultures of the American Southwest to Europe and the Middle East. As director of the State Department's Point Four Training Program in the 1950s, Dr. Hall's mission was to teach foreign-bound technicians and administrators how to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. He was a consultant to architects on human factors in design and to business and government agencies in the field of intercultural relations, and had taught at the University of Denver, Bennington College, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Harvard Business School, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Hall was born in Webster Groves, Missouri. He received an A.B. degree from the University of Denver, and M.A. from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, until his death in 2009.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460165505298,"sku":"9780385055499","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c130bf49-d6d3-4b14-b97c-ae9b08dd1a70.jpg?v=1730031856","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-silent-language-9780385055499","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}