Codex•Mundi A scholarly atlas of the senses lost when crossing borders

← Hand gestures

Le check / fist bump

Du ring de boxe à Barack Obama, le poing contre poing s'est poli en code pandémique.

Under developmentCuriosity

Category : Hand gesturesSubcategory : celebrations-succesConfidence level : 3/5 (documented hypothesis)Identifier : e0021

Geography of misunderstanding

Neutral

  • usa
  • canada
  • france
  • belgium
  • netherlands
  • luxembourg
  • australia
  • new-zealand
  • fiji
  • samoa
  • tonga

Not documented

  • peuples-autochtones
  • arabe-machrek-golfe
  • asie-est

Full description

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Du ring de boxe à Barack Obama, le poing contre poing s'est poli en code pandémique.

Sources

  1. Morris, D., Collett, P., Marsh, P., & O'Shaughnessy, M. (1979). Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution. Stein & Day / Jonathan Cape.
  2. Axtell, R. E. (1998). Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World (revised edition). John Wiley & Sons.
  3. Matsumoto, D. & Hwang, H.C. (2013). Cultural similarities and differences in emblematic gestures. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37(1), 1-27. — ↗