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Title	:	The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
Author	:	Edward T. Hall
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	February 9th 1984 by Anchor
Categories	:	Anthropology. Nonfiction. Psychology. Philosophy. Sociology. Science

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“Hall, whose Beyond Culture and The Silent Language won a wider readership, has written a ground-breaking investigation of the ways we use and abuse time, rich in insights applicable to our lives. Business readers will enjoy the cross-cultural comparison of American know-how with practices of compartmentalized German, centralized French, and ceremonious Japanese firms.”
— Publishers Weekly

In his pioneering work The Hidden Dimension, Edward T. Hall spoke of different cultures’ concepts of space. The Dance of Life reveals the ways in which individuals in culture are tied together by invisible threads of rhythm and yet isolated from each other by hidden walls of time. Hall shows how time is an organizer of activities, a synthesizer and integrator, and a special language that reveals how we really feel about each other. Time plays a central role in the diversity of cultures such as the American and the Japanese, which Hall shows to be mirror images of each other. He also deals with how time influences relations among Western Europeans, Latin Americans, Anglo-Americans, and Native Americans.

First published in 1983, this book studies how people are tied together and yet isolated by hidden threads of rhythm and walls of time.  Time is treated as a language, organizer, and message system revealing people's feelings about each other and reflecting differences between cultures.

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Original Title:	The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time
ISBN:	0385192487 (ISBN13: 9780385192484)
Edition Language:	English

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Fascinating, with many unique insights about how different cultures experience time.

Good read

Where we live is not how a person lives, but a frivolous society that uses that person as a basic measure of what he or she has. We use a standard full of prejudice and stereotypes to cut or neglect others, and to ignore and despise others. Crime rates have increased and people's lives are now low enough to be converted into money. What made this society so miserable and depressing? Is it related to the recovery of man's dignity and the attributes of culture that determine its resilience? If so,

Excellent book that greatly expanded my view of the culture and individual people ... understanding the reasons why they act a certain way. Maybe one minus for me is that - sometimes had to go through a paragraph a couple of times because of the difficult language ... but it could just mean I need to learn more ( ohh... ir definitely means I need to learn more ). Suggest for everybody

first editionwith dustjacketadequate condition for book, dust jacket is raggedbooks by this author:The Silent Language (1959) The Hidden Dimension (1969) Beyond Culture (1976) The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time (1983) Handbook for Proxemic Research Hidden Differences: Doing Business with the Japanese An Anthropology of Everyday Life: An Autobiography (1992, Doubleday, New York) Understanding Cultural Differences - Germans, French and Americans (1993, Yarmouth, Maine) West of the

I just reread The Dance of Life, by E.T. Hall, and discovered how much it has influenced my thinking. I have no idea why or where I bought it at some point in the 1990s, other than it must have looked interesting. At times I describe myself as a "rhythm junkie." If I'm at an exercise class with music, I move to the beat, and it drives me nuts on the rare occasions when teachers don't. If there's music in a store, I have a hard time not moving to it. I was in a drum and bugle corps in high school

Excellent like all of Dr. Halls very readable books. At times outdated but still full of practical insight about culture and human behavior.