The Maaliki scholar Al-Kharashi said: “It is recommended to move the index finger to the right and to the left while the side of the finger is facing upwards to one’s face just like a ...

We Westerners have a boring pointing repertoire. Most of the time, we just jut out our arm and index finger. If our hands ... scrunching together of the face. Last year Núñez and Cooperrider ...

When people want to draw attention to something, we instinctively extend an index finger ... to pointing with the hand. Others held that, in indigenous cultures such as the Cuna of Panama or the ...

For everything else, Miss Manners recommends, well, the pointing index finger. By not going looking for trouble. While it is kind of you to take an interest in your acquaintances' work ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Could you please remind me of the etiquette that regulates pointing, as with an index finger? I was taught to never point at people, which seems to be an enduring guideline.