Tales of Hi and Bye : Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World - Torbjorn Lundmark

Tales of Hi and Bye

Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World

By: Torbjorn Lundmark

Hardcover | 27 October 2009

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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 ...

Tales of Hi and Bye is about an everyday behaviour so commonplace that it slips by without much notice: the ways we greet and farewell and refer to each other in social interaction.

Every culture on earth, spanning from antiquity to IT-age, has developed its own way of saying hello. From Chinese kowtowing to Maori nose-rubbing, from Hitler’s Nazi salute to the jet-set’s air-kisses, from telephone manners to the overuse of names in TV soaps — greeting and parting rituals around the world, whether through gesture or voice, are wide-ranging and colourful, amusing and confusing.

Tales of Hi and Bye is a general interest, well-researched, non-academic book, easy and fun to read, surprising in its content and scope, and an inspired source for people who are interested in other people’s behaviour… and their own.

About the Author

Torbjorn Lundmark (known as TL) was born in Sweden and has called Australia home since 1978. He works as a professional writer, illustrator and cartoonist, and is the author of several books, including Quirky Qwerty: The Story of the Keyboard at Your Fingertips.
Industry Reviews
'Lundmark's unique little book effervesces with intriguing facts and factlets about greeting customs in different cultures around the world, from the Eskimo shoulder strike to the New Zealand 'hongi' (nose-touching). It's guaranteed to entertain and inform - globetrotters and armchair travellers alike.' Pam Peters, Macquarie University, Sydney '... wry, elegant little tome ... turning trivia into something more.' The Australian

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