ANTHROPOLOGIST

Edward T. Hall

1914 - 2009

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward T. Hall is the 26th most popular anthropologist (down from 17th in 2019), the 2,584th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,895th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Anthropologist.

Edward T. Hall is most famous for his work on proxemics, which is the study of how people use space and distance to communicate.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Edward T. Hall ranks 26 out of 93. Before her are Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Wilhelm Schmidt, Marvin Harris, Raymond Dart, and Andrey Korotayev. After her are Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Marshall Sahlins, Marc Augé, Fredrik Barth, and Richard Leakey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Edward T. Hall ranks 94. Before her are Lina Bo Bardi, Adriaan Blaauw, Lazar Koliševski, Nicolas de Staël, Pietro Germi, and John Kerr. After her are Ferenc Fricsay, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Jean Tatlock, Peter Townsend, Birabongse Bhanudej, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Among people deceased in 2009, Edward T. Hall ranks 83. Before her are John Hughes, Prince Alexandre of Belgium, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Lucian Pulvermacher, Arne Næss, and Qian Xuesen. After her are Kim Peek, Augusto Boal, Glenn Davis, James Whitmore, Armen Takhtajan, and Philip José Farmer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward T. Hall ranks 2,584 out of 20,380. Before her are Will Eisner (1917), Anne Archer (1947), Jackie Jackson (1951), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), and Jim Lightbody (1882). After her are Ethel Barrymore (1879), Ub Iwerks (1901), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Maggie Hassan (1958), Michael Rosbash (1944), and Stockton Rush (1962).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Edward T. Hall ranks 7. Before her are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), and Marvin Harris (1927). After her are Ann Dunham (1942), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), Edwin H. Colbert (1905), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).

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