Anyone else here a fan of Ned (Edward T.) Hall's work? I think I've discussed this a bit with Agar.
Most relevant to the current discussion might be his books on human perception of interpersonal space and of time. "The Hidden Dimension" and "The Silent Language" both come to mind. I believe that Ned is credited with both pioneering the field of "cultural anthropology" and of coining the terms "Proxemics" and "Polychronic" Ned's notions of "High Context Culture" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_context_culture may be relevant to our recent musings. Ned spent one year (or just a semester) at the Los Alamos Ranch School as a boy, lead a group of Negro soldiers in WWII and spent many years on the Navajo and Hopi reservations on public works projects and trying to understand their culture. For his "honeymoon", he rode with his new wife by horseback from Santa Fe back to his location on the reservation... To my knowledge he is still alive (he would be 97 I think) in Santa Fe. It has been 10 years since I have spoken with him, however. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
