What is time
What is time? Well, since it is almost impossible for anyone in any culture to define, the more appropriate question may be “how many kinds of time are there?” This is the title of first chapter in Edward T. Hall’s The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time. According to Hall, experiences and conceptualizations of time are defined and formulated by one’s culture, whether it is conscious or unconscious. This book “…deals with the most personal of all experiences: how people are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time (3).” As humans, we orient our behaviors around definitions of time much like the way our thoughts and ideas are shaped by the language we speak. Time organizes, categorizes, and measures all of our experiences. Since experiences and behaviors compose 90% of the communication between people (language the other 10%), Hall poses the question of how it is possible to maintain a stable world in the absence of the feedback from the other 90% of communication (4). Hall describes to us his experiences with time in various cultures and shows the differences between the definitions in each of them. Hall has done fieldwork with Navajo
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