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Tales of hi and bye : greetings and parting rituals around the world
Title:
Tales of hi and bye : greetings and parting rituals around the world
Author:
Lundmark, Torbjörn.
ISBN:
9780521117548
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Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Gestures & signals -- Customs & behaviours -- Names & Addresses.
Abstract:
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 perform a vast array of greetings and farwell rituals, so common and natural no one stops to notice. Australian author.
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