Manners, we are told, are in part an elaboration of gesture, and in part they are symbolical and conventionalised survivals representing former acts of dominance or of personal service or of personal contact. In large part they are an expression of the relation of status-a symbolic pantomime of mastery on the one hand and of subservience on the other.
–Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption
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