Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action - Couverture souple

Farnell, Brenda

 
9780803222823: Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action
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ISBN 10 : 0803222823 ISBN 13 : 9780803222823
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2009

Synopsis

Plains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains, who spoke very different languages. Although some researchers thought it had disappeared following the establishment of reservations and the widespread adoption of English, Brenda Farnell discovered that PST is still an integral component of the storytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture.

Farnell's research challenges the dominant European American view of language as a matter of words only. In Nakota language practices, she asserts, words and gestures are equal partners in the creation of meaning. Drawing on Nakota narratives videotaped during field research at the Fort Belknap reservation in northern Montana, she uses the movement script Labanotation to create texts of the movement content of these performances.

The first and only ethnographic study of contemporary uses of PST, Do You See What I Mean? draws on important developments in the study of language and culture to provide an action-centered analysis of spoken and gestural discourse. It offers a theoretical approach to language and the body that transcends the current "intellectualist" versus "phenomenological" impasse in social and linguistic theory.

Brenda Farnell is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and Invisible in Movement and Dance. She is coeditor of the Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brenda Farnell is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and Invisible in Movement and Dance. She is coeditor of the Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803222823
ISBN 13 
9780803222823
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0292724802 ISBN 13 :  9780292724808
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 1995
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