@article{Streeck_2020, title={Self-Touch as Sociality}, volume={3}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/socialinteraction/article/view/120854}, DOI={10.7146/si.v3i2.120854}, abstractNote={<p>Self-touch is often understood as a form of interactional disengagement and withdrawal, of self-involvement, and co-participants are said to disattend ‘self-grooming’ actionsIn this paper, I present interactional sequences during which the parties touch themselves at the same time, or in succession. These data thus suggest that self-touch can also be an engagement display. Approaching self-touch from the ‘point of view’ of idle hands in need of something to do, and of interaction as in need of ongoing mutual coordination, I present cooperative self-touch as a display of the deeply social nature of the human body.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality}, author={Streeck, Jürgen}, year={2020}, month={Aug.} }