Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action by Farnell, Brenda
Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action by Farnell, Brenda

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

Plains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca...
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Author: Brenda Farnell
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Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action by Farnell, Brenda

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

€42,50
Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action by Farnell, Brenda

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

€42,50
Author: Brenda Farnell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.



Author: Brenda Farnell
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780803222823

About the Author
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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