By Edward T. Hall
An exam of varied cultural suggestions of area and the way modifications between them have an effect on glossy society. Introducing the technological know-how of "proxemics," corridor demonstrates how man's use of house can impact own company kinfolk, cross-cultural exchanges, structure, urban making plans, and concrete renewal
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Lacking definitive measures, those who study crowding repeatedly fall back on incidents in which the crowding has been so extreme as to result in insanity or death. As more and more is learned about both men and animals, it becomes clearer that the skin itself is a very unsatisfactory boundary or measuring point for crowding. Like the moving molecules that make up all matter, living things move and therefore require more or less fixed amounts of space. Absolute zero, the bottom of the scale, is reached when people are so compressed that movement is no longer possible.
Since the American experience of smell is so poorly developed, it seems useful to review briefly the function of olfaction as a biological activity. Here is a sense that must have per- 46 THE HIDDEN DIMENSION formed important functions in our past. Hence it is pertinent to ask what roles it did perform and whether some of these are still not relevant, although ignored or even suppressed by our culture. The Chemical Basis of Olfaction Odor is one of the earliest and most basic methods of communication.
The very fact that the view is stereoscopic emphasizes that it is also fixed and stationary, an illusion.
