
Tales of Hi and Bye
Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World
Hardcover | 27 October 2009
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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.
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ISBN: 9780521117548
ISBN-10: 0521117542
Published: 27th October 2009
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 250
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 20.0 x 13.9 x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.39
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