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Peer reviewedCreider, Chet A. – Sign Language Studies, 1977
This paper describes the gestural behavior of four tribal groups, Kipsigis, Luo, Gusii, and Samburu, observed and elicted in the course of two and one-half years of field work in Western Kenya in 1970-72. The gestures are grouped into four categories: (1) initiators and finalizers of interaction; (2) imperatives; (3) responses; (4) qualifiers.…
Descriptors: African Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, Bantu Languages, Body Language
