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Tales of hi and bye: Greeting and parting rituals around the world

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2009 Cambridge University Press CambridgeDescription: xi, 250 pISBN:
  • 9780521117548
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394 L8T2
Summary: We do it over and over again, day after day, and never seem to get enough of it. Albanians do it. Zulus do it. Movie stars and plumbers do it. All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and countless ways: they wave and bow and curtsey and shake hands and rub noses and fist-bump and mwah-mwah and perform a vast array of greeting and farewell rituals, so common and natural that no-one stops to notice DTalesofHiandByeprovidesadelightful,witty,andintriguinginsightintothesometimesstrangeandoftenwonderfulcustomsassociatedwithanordinary,everydayevent.(http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2703128/?site_locale=en_GB)
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We do it over and over again, day after day, and never seem to get enough of it. Albanians do it. Zulus do it. Movie stars and plumbers do it. All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and countless ways: they wave and bow and curtsey and shake hands and rub noses and fist-bump and mwah-mwah and perform a vast array of greeting and farewell rituals, so common and natural that no-one stops to notice DTalesofHiandByeprovidesadelightful,witty,andintriguinginsightintothesometimesstrangeandoftenwonderfulcustomsassociatedwithanordinary,everydayevent.(http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2703128/?site_locale=en_GB)

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