Volume 10, Number 10 · May 23, 1968
Nonsense and Sensibility
By Edmund R. Leach
The Hidden Dimension
by Edward T. Hall
Doubleday, 201 pp., $4.95
The Silent Language
by Edward T. Hall
Fawcett, 192 pp., (paperback) 60 cents (paper)
Dr. Hall's recent book is an expansion of Chapter 10 of The Silent Language, and those familiar with the earlier work, now in its tenth printing, may need to know no more than that. Dr. Hall is a homegrown, very old-fashioned, practical-problem kind of American anthropologist who has been quite unaffected by the developments which have taken place either in his own subject or in linguistics during the past twenty-five years. As he himself sees it, his basic thesis is 'that the principles laid down by Whorf in relation to language apply to the rest of human behavior as well, in fact, to all Culture.'
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