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INDIAN GREETING
WHEN A MAN AND WOMAN MEET, THE GREETING IS GIVEN BY THE
PHRASE, "NAMASTE" WHICH IS GIVEN BY BOTH PARTIES WITH
THE HANDS FLAT AGAINST EACH OTHER OVER THE CHEST AND
A SLIGHT BOW OF THE HEAD.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Formula SPEECH -- Body parts involved S602.1 SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 02-29-1968
"WAI" GESTURE
THIS IS DONE BY PUTTING THE HANDS TOGETHER IN A PRAYING
POSITION BEFORE YOUR FACE AND SLIGHTLY NODDING YOUR
HEAD. THIS GESTURE HOLDS THE SAME TRADITIONAL SIGNIFI-
CANCE AS THE AMERICAN HANDSHAKE, BUT ALSO SIGNIFIES
RESPECT, THANKS, AND APOLOGY.
James Callow comment: TIPS OF FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS AT LIPS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): THAILAND
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Gesture SPEECH -- Body parts involved S602.1 SPEECH -- Body parts involved S602.14 SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Respect |
Date learned: 10-24-1970
ADMIRATION GESTURE -- BRUSHING OF PALMS OF EXTENDED RIGHT
HAND WITH RIGHT HAND OF ANOTHER.
Submitter comment: OBSERVED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
Where learned: BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Congratulations Appreciation |
Date learned: 11-15-1967
BLACK MEMBERS OF THE MARINE CORPS HAVE ADOPTED CERTAIN BLACK
MUSLIM HANDSHAKES AS A FORM OF GREETING. THEY ARE QUITE
COMPLICATED, AND INDIVIDUALS ARE FREE TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN
VARIATIONS. THE RIGHT HAND IS HELD IN A FIST AND THE TWO
PEOPLE STRIKE THEIR FISTS TOGETHER RAPIDLY IN COMBINATIONS
OF SIDE, FRONT, TOP, AND BOTTOM, AND USUALLY END BY OPENING
THEIR FISTS AND GRASPING ONE ANOTHER'S HANDS. SOME WEAR
LEATHER BRACELETS WITH FRINGE OR TASSELS HANGING FROM THEM,
AND THESE FLY ABOUT RHYTHMICALLY DURING THE HANDSHAKE.
WHEN THE GREETING IS BETWEEN A BOY AND A GIRL, SOME FORM OF
LIGHT KISS IS OFTEN INCLUDED IN THE HANDSHAKE.
Submitter comment:
I HAVE SEEN SITUATIONS MANY TIMES WHERE A BLACK PERSON
WOULD COME UP TO A TABLE OF AS MANY AS A DOZEN OTHER BLACK
PEOPLE AND GIVE SUCH A HANDSHAKE TO EACH ONE, A PROCESS
OF PERHAPS 5 MINUTES ALTOGETHER.
Where learned: CALIFORNIA ; SAN DIEGO
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 09-00-1970
BLACK POWER EMBRACE. TOUCH RIGHT TO LEFT CHEEK, THEN
LEFT TO RIGHT CHEEK.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
James Callow Keyword(s): POSITION DIRECTION
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Body parts involved S602.1 SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
BLACK POWER SIGN--A FIST WITH THE ARM BENT UPWARD.
SYMBOLIZING POWER.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Date learned: 09-00-1968
GREETING
IN INDIA THE PEOPLE GREET EACH OTHER BY PUTTING THEIR
HANDS IN A PRAYING POSITION AND SAYING "NAMASDA."
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Formula SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 10-24-1968
SLIP ME FIVE
THIS IS FOLLOWED BY ALLOWING TWO PEOPLE TO PASS
THEIR HAND PALM DOWN OVER THE PALM OF ANOTHER.
THIS HAS ITS ORIGIN FROM THE NEGROES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Formula SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 09-22-1969
HONGIE
UNTIL RECENT YEARS THE MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND GREETED EACH
OTHER BY TOUCHING NOSES CALLED "HONGIE." THIS IS STILL
THE FORM OF GREETING USED BY THE OTHER PEOPLE.
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Body parts involved S602.13 SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 10-00-1970
THE PHILIPPINE GREETING IS TO KISS THE HAND OF EVERYONE
OLDER THAN YOURSELF AND THEN GENUFLECT TO THEM. ALSO
IN WRITING THE GREETING IS -- "I KISS YOUR HAND."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank SPEECH -- Formula SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Respect |
Date learned: 11-00-1970
IN EUROPE EVERYONE, MEN AND WOMEN, BOTH SHAKE HANDS UPON
GREETING AND LEAVING. MEN SHAKE HANDS WITH WOMEN AND
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Goodbyes Leavetakings |
Date learned: 09-23-1969
THE WORLD WIDE GESTURE OF HANDSHAKING IS A GESTURE OF
GREETING AND THE KISSING OF EACH CHEEK OF A PERSON
(FRENCH).
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Body parts involved S602.1 SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
WAVING THE HAND WITH THE ARM OUTSTRETCHED AS IF SAYING
A "WESTERN" GOODBYE MEANS "COME HERE."
Submitter comment: A UNIVERSAL KOREAN GESTURE.
Where learned: KOREA ; WAEGWAN
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 01-00-1964
ITALIAN GESTURE
ITALIANS CUPPING HAND UPWARDS MEANS GOODBYE.
CUPPING THE HAND DOWNWARD AS THOUGH TO
GRAB SOMETHING BECKONS TO SOMEONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Instructions Directions |
Date learned: 01-29-1968
IT SEEMS THAT ONE NIGHT RAY ROWLAND, MY ROOMMATE AND A
HIGH SCHOOL BUDDY OF HIS WERE IN THE ROOM. SOMETHING
HAD HAPPENED ABOUT WHICH THEY FELT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
PRIDE, I GUESS. THE NEXT THING I SAW WAS RAY AND JERRY
APPROACHING EACH OTHER AS IF TO SHAKE HANDS. BUT WHAT
HAPPENED WAS DEFINITELY A HANDSHAKE IN THE NORMAL SENSE
OF THE WORD, ANYHOW. WITH THEIR RIGHT HANDS, THEY
TOUCHED THUMBS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE TOPS OF THE HANDS
FACED EACH OTHER. THEN THE HANDS SWUNG AROUND AND THE
BOTTOMS TOUCHED, THUMBS STILL TOUCHING. UPON THE
RELEASE OF THE THUMBS, THE HANDS SLIPPED OFF EACH OTHER.
NEXT CAME A SNAP OF THE FINGERS, FOLLOWED BY A SLAP OF THE
RIGHT LEG. THE HAND THEN CAME UP TO THE MOUTH FOR A
SMALL AMOUNT OF MOISTURE ON THE MIDDLE FINGER TO BE
APPLIED TO THE SIDE OF THE HEAD ABOVE THE EAR.
I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY. I LAUGHED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; DORMS
James Callow Keyword(s): SPITTLE
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
BLACK POWER HANDSHAKE
SECRETE
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): SECRET
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Wishes Wants Desires Predictions Victory Peace |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
SALUTE
THE SALUTE EVOLVED FROM ANCIENT ROME. AS A MEANS
OF GREETING, THE ROMANS PUT THEIR HANDS UP TO
SHOW THAT THEY WERE FRIENDS AND HAD NO WEAPONS.
THIS STARTED BECAUSE BRUTUS KILLED CAESAR WHO
WAS SUPPOSEDLY A FRIEND. IT THEN EVOLVED INTO A
WAY OF GREATING A FRIEND AND FINALLY INTO A SALUTE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): HISTORY
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Salutes |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
GIVE ME SOME SKIN
THIS IS A GESTURE WHICH STARTED AMONG NEGROES, BUT
HAS RAPIDLY SPREAD TO MANY WHITE MEN AS WELL. (OF
COURSE, THE ONLY PLACE I HAVE SEEN THIS HAS BEEN
IN DETROIT). THE HAND OR HANDS OF ONE MAN (I HAVE
NEVER OBSERVED WOMEN DOING THIS) IS (ARE) THRUST
OUT PALM UPWARDS AND IS (ARE) SLAPPED BY THE HAND
(HANDS) OF THE OTHER. IT IS USED TO EXPRESS A FEELING
OF "SOUL" BETWEEN THE TWO MEN--A FEELING OF INTENSE
AGREEMENT WITH THE OTHER'S MOOD.
THIS IS PERFORMED WITH VARIATIONS. SOMETIMES, ONE MAN
TURNS AROUND AND EXTENDS HIS HANDS (PALMS UP) OUT
BEHIND HIM TO BE SLAPPED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 602 Body Parts SPEECH -- Greetings Salutations SPEECH -- Congratulations Appreciation |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN