Edward T. Hall

Edward T. Hall
Hall in 1966
Born
Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr.

(1914-05-16)May 16, 1914
Webster Groves, Missouri,
United States
DiedJuly 20, 2009(2009-07-20) (aged 95)
Santa Fe, New Mexico,
United States
Alma materColumbia University
Known forProxemics, High-context and low-context cultures, monochronic and polychronic time
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
InstitutionsUnited States Army, University of Denver, Bennington College, Harvard Business School, Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, United States Department of State

Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. He is remembered for developing the concept of proxemics and exploring cultural and social cohesion, and describing how people behave and react in different types of culturally defined personal space. Hall was an influential colleague of Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller.[1]

  1. ^ Rogers, Everett M. (2000). "The Extensions of Men: The Correspondence of Marshall Mc Luhan and Edward T. Hall". Mass Communication and Society. 3: 117–135. doi:10.1207/S15327825MCS0301_06. S2CID 144800437.