For a more comprehensive understanding of Hall’s work, I believe it is mandatory to have at least an overview of the author’s biography. Born in Missouri in 1914, he served in the U.S. Army both in Europe and the Philippines. He also worked on Navajo and Hopi American reserves, this giving him a deeper understanding of their culture. It was this work with the army and the reserves that laid a foundation for his lifelong research on cultural perceptions of space. With information garnered from his experiences, he began you believe that how different cultures interpreted reality played a major role in cases of miscommunication of the most fundamental kind. Hall has published several books on cross-cultural communication, but his most significant contributions have been in the area of proxemics. Proxemics is the study of the use of human space within the context of culture. He argues that although all humans share a perception of space that is derived from sensory elements, this perception is also shaped by one’s culture. He furthers this argument by saying that different cultures have different frameworks for defining and organizing space, which is internalized in all people at an unconscious level. This can lead to serious failures of communication and understanding in a cross-cultural setting. Hall’s work remains relevant to date and has brought great input in several fields, starting from his definitions of space. He classifies space into three major categories: intimate space, social/consulate space, and public space. The first, he says, is the space that individuals allow only their closest friends and intimates to share with them. Social or consulate space is that which one feels comfortable conducting routine social interactions with acquaintances as well as strangers. Public space is the area of space beyond which people will perceive interactions as impersonal. He also came up with the concept of “the anthropology of Space.” This is where anthropologists study the built environment of past civilizations to try and determine how this expresses the culturally shared ideas sustenance of relations of inequality between people. Another area to which Hall has contributed is in the development of the communication theory, especially the intercultural communication theory. He inspired research on spatial theory. Besides this text, Hall has written several other books on anthropology. We will carry a chapter by chapter analysis of this particular piece of work to try and get a clearer understanding of how inter-cultural relations influence us and to step beyond cultural boundaries, reacting on a more base and unprejudiced level. In the first chapter, the author focuses on the definition of the word culture. By first clarifying, those definitions are, in a sense, not static, being but a model in the broader sense of the word. “The purpose of the model is to enable the user to do a better job in handling the enormous complexity of life. By using models, we see and test how things work and can even predict how things will go in the future.” (p.13) Man’s definitions of things are rather limiting because they tend to tell us more about the man rather than what is being defined because the definitions are colored by the definer’s perception. Thus, it is difficult for an ant