Why has proxemics become one of the leading new social sciences that is garnering much study?
When do you touch someone? Or, more importantly, when don’t you? Why do you touch someone and why don’t you? It’s a social minefield. The truth is, we have become a nation of touchy-feely people. I see it all the time. People who barely know each other spend their time squeezing other’s arms, hugging each other or generally empathising with people all over the place. This may not be a bad thing – after all, what’s wrong with a little human warmth? – but it’s a nightmare if you are, like me, someone who tends to keep their distance. How do you remain private when everyone else wants to touch you? I feel baffled by the etiquette of greeting people. How well do you have to know someone before you kiss them hello? Do you kiss them on the cheek once or twice? In truth, I am not one to have a quick hug apropos of nothing with someone I’ve only just met. I have tried. I have persuaded myself not to grimace as people I barely know take me in their arms and squeeze me. But, in the end, I feel s
Margaret Mead was the best-known, and most controversial, anthropologist in twentieth-century America. Born in 1901, Mead died in 1978, thus her life spanned the greater part of the period Henry Luce first referred to as “the American century.” It is also the century in which the science of anthropology came to maturity. By the time of her death in 1978, Mead had become a media celebrity and an iconic figure who represented a range of different ideas, values, and beliefs to a broad spectrum of the American public—critics and supporters alike. For many she also came to symbolize the discipline of anthropology, as she was the only anthropologist they had ever heard of. Her name as well as her image—that of a short (she was only 5 feet 2 inches), stocky, gray-haired woman often dressed in a flowing cape, wearing sensible low-heeled shoes, and carrying a forked walking stick— had become recognizable to a large portion of the American public through her many appearances on television talk s
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