biography
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Hall, Edward T(witchell), Jr
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914– )
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| biography:
| Cultural anthropologist, born in Webster Groves, Missouri, USA. He studied at the University of Denver and at Columbia University (1940 PhD), and in the 1930s began studying communications among the Hopi and Navajo Indians. After army service during World War 2, he taught at Bennington, Illinois Technical College, and Northwestern. He developed his theories of nonverbal communication and popularized them in Silent Language (1959), and other important works were Beyond Culture (1966) and The Dance of Life (1983). With his wife, he operated a consultancy that interpreted foreign cultures for business and government officials by drawing on his knowledge of gestures, body movement, and other types of nonverbal ‘languages’. |
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