The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time

by Edward T. Hall

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385192487
• ISBN13: 9780385192484
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

got intellectual curiosity?

Edward T Hall is amazing. If you want to awaken your mind & think newly - read Hall. All his books leave me wide awake, wondering & grateful fo his rare intelligence.

A must-have for understanding cultural perceptions of time.

This book blew my mind back when it was first released, and on third or fourth read, there is still so much information to be gleaned from it.Issues discussed:Appointments by time vs. being late because a friend in need is more important.Queueing for the bus vs. pushing and shoving to the front of the line.Needing closure vs. pigeon-holing a half-completed but unimportant task, often for months or even years.But most importantly, the book goes in great detail into how these cultural differences in the perception of time and sequence affect interactions between the races and between nations. I highly recommend Dance of Life not only for international travellers but also for anyone who has to deal with other cultures.