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" ... wailing for two or three minutes till they are tired. Two brothers greet each other in this way, and so do father and son, mother and daughter, and husband and wife. When husband and wife meet, it is the man who sits in the lap of the woman. "
Touch - Page 21
by Tiffany Field - 2001 - 181 pages
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The Andaman Islanders

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown - Andaman Islands - 1922 - 562 pages
...been separated from one another for a few weeks or longer, they greet each other by sitting down, one on the lap of the other, with their arms around each other's necks, and weeping and wailing for two or three minutes till they are tired. Two brothers greet each other...
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Separation and Reunion in Modern China

Charles Stafford - Social Science - 2000 - 214 pages
...been separated from one another for a few weeks or longer, they greet each other by sitting down, one on the lap of the other, with their arms around each other's necks, and weeping and wailing for two or three minutes till they are tired. Two brothers greet each other...
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