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In the greeting phase of this ethnomedical encounter, video-recorded in the village of Koungheul, Senegal, the healer and the patient initiate latching and overlap in a nearly symmetrical fashion, a pattern that helps project interpersonal "intimacy."
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A moment in a Tibetan Buddhist debate recorded at Sera Monastery, India. In this dramatic display of multi-modal asymmetry, the lead challenger and the defendant present themselves as inverse icons of each other.