Entrée principale:

Hall, Edward T. (Edward Twitchell), 1914-2009.

Titre et auteur:

The hidden dimension / Edward T. Hall.

Édition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966.

Description:

xii, 201 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
I. Culture as communication -- II. Distance regulation in animals. Spacing mechanisms in animals ; Population control ; The stickleback sequence ; Malthus reconsidered ; The die-off on James Island ; Predation and population -- III. Crowding and social behavior in animals. Calhoun's experiments ; The biochemistry of crowding -- IV. Perception of space : distance receptors : eyes, ears, and nose. Visual and auditory space ; Olfactory space -- V. Perception of space : immediate receptors : skin and muscles. Hidden zones in American offices ; Thermal space ; Tactile space -- VI. Visual space. Vision as synthesis ; The seeing mechanism ; Stereoscopic vision -- VII. Art as a clue to perception. Contrast of contemporary cultures ; Art as a history of perception -- VIII. The language of space. Literature as a key to perception -- IX. The anthropology of space : an organizing model. Fixed-feature space ; Semifixed-feature space ; Informal space -- X. Distances in man. The dynamism of space ; Intimate distance ; Personal distance ; Social distance ; Public distance ; Why "four" distances? -- XI. Proxemics in a cross-cultural context : Germans, English, and French. The Germans ; The English ; The French -- XII. Proxemics in a cross-cultural context : Japan and the Arab world. Japan ; The Arab world -- XIII. Cities and culture. The need for controls ; Psychology and architecture ; Pathology and overcrowding ; Monochronic and polychronic time ; The automobile syndrome ; Contained community buildings ; Prospectus for city planning of the future -- XIV. Proxemics and the future of man. Form vs. function, content vs. structure ; Man's biological past ; The need for answers ; You can't shed culture -- Appendix: Summary of James Gibson's thirteen varieties of perspective as abstracted from The perception of the visual world.
Also issued online.

Résumé:

Line drawings and photographs help the author explain the effects of overcrowding and what it can do to people in large groups and as individuals.

ISBN:

0385084765 (paperback)
9780385084765 (paperback)

Sujet:

Space perception.
Space and time.
Space Perception
Perception spatiale.
Espace et temps.
space perception.
Ruimte (algemeen)
Psychologische aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.
Geografia Cultural.
Personal space.
Personal space Cross-cultural studies.
Space perception Cross-cultural studies.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 99035
Cote: 10041 A1322; ID:86-B19704
Statut: Disponible

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 99036
Cote: 0005794; ID:86-B19704
Statut: Disponible