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Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action
Brenda Farnell
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Description for Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action
Paperback. 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. This study of contemporary uses of PST offers a theoretical approach to language and the body that transcends the 'intellectualist' versus 'phenomenological' impasse in social and linguistic theory. Num Pages: 400 pages, 107 figures, 3 maps, 26 halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1K; CF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803222823
SKU
V9780803222823
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About Brenda Farnell
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.
Reviews for Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action
“What is struggling to emerge is a theoretical framework in which the way that the different modalities of communication are articulated with one another can be understood. This book should be read by all those with an interest in the development of such a framework.”—Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “A major contribution to Native American studies, to cultural anthropology ... Read more