Common Knowledge

Donald Emerson Crim PhD spent his life developing his theory of human behavior, art, technology and interpersonal relations in terms of haptics, the sense of touch. This book is a refreshing new look at the experience and behavior of humanity.

Dr. Donald E. Crim was educated at the Eastman School of Music, the University of Chicago, Ohio State University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1957, and Cornell University, where he received his doctorate in Cultural Anthropology in 1973. He did field work among the Yir Yoront in Australia. Dr. Crim was instrumental in establishing the undergraduate curriculum and founding the Anthropology Department at Colorado State University. He taught at CSU from 1963 to 1997, and his specialty areas were Native American studies, South Pacific culture, Anthropological theory, linguistics and ethnomusicology.