What does this gesture mean?
Close your eyes. Breathe in: that faint scent isn’t just earth. It’s the same aroma that filled my Babushka Anya’s 19th-century village as she pressed a closed fist to her chest when soldiers came for the harvest. As an anthropologist who’s studied 12,000+ cultural gestures (and inherited this wisdom from my Sicilian nonna), I’ll reveal … Read more