Brenda Farnell

Do You See What I Mean?

Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780803222823
• ISBN-10: 0803222823
• Artikelnr.: 26015955

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Nineteenth-Century Legacy
2. Bias against the Iconic
3. Geographical and Historical Spaces: Assiniboine Territory and the
Embodiment of Deixis
4. Moral and Ethical Spaces: Naming Practices and Visual Imagery in Nakota
and PST
5. Getting to the Point: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in PST and Nakota
6. Storytelling and the Embodiment of Symbolic Form
7. The Primacy of Movement in Assiniboine Culture
8. Conclusions
Appendix A. Phonetic Key
Appendix B. Kinetic Key
Notes
Bibliography
Index