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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward T. Hall has received more than 537,797 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Edward T. Hall is the 17th most popular anthropologist (up from 18th in 2019), the 1,895th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,768th in 2019) and the 5th 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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  • 1.90

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Edward T. Hall ranks 17 out of 93. Before her are Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, Knud Rasmussen, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Eugène Dubois, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. After her are Mary Douglas, Mary Leakey, Marc Augé, Victor Turner, Cheikh Anta Diop, and Marshall Sahlins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Edward T. Hall ranks 73. Before her are Achille Compagnoni, Lina Bo Bardi, Larbi Benbarek, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Lazar Koliševski, and Pierre Balmain. After her are Felice Borel, Agostino Casaroli, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Pietro Germi, and Archduchess Adelheid of Austria. Among people deceased in 2009, Edward T. Hall ranks 66. Before her are Susan Atkins, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, J. G. Ballard, Clive Granger, Alicia de Larrocha, and Shih Kien. After her are Gaafar Nimeiry, Ricardo Montalbán, Arne Næss, Sydney Chaplin, Philip José Farmer, and Oleg Yankovsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward T. Hall ranks 1,895 out of 20,380. Before her are Ron Paul (1935), Charles W. Morris (1903), Cyrus Vance (1917), Victor French (1934), Jim Garrison (1921), and Liv Tyler (1977). After her are Thomas J. Watson (1874), Gary Busey (1944), Louis Zamperini (1917), Don Murray (1929), Peter Criss (1945), and Ken Norton (1943).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Edward T. Hall ranks 5. Before her are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Margaret Mead (1901), Ruth Benedict (1887), and Clifford Geertz (1926). After her are Marshall Sahlins (1930), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Ann Dunham (1942), Marvin Harris (1927), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805).

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