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Farewells are a universal element of human experience, but their situational expressions and communicative structures are highly variable. In this history of leave-taking, Juliane Schröter shows how various forms of leave-taking changed during the 19 th and 20 th centuries and the ways these changes are linked to other cultural transformations.

Autorentext

Juliane Schröter, University of Zurich, Switzerland.