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

Name: Do You See What I Mean? Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action
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ISBN: 9780803222823

ISBN-10: 0803222823

ISBN-13: 9780803222823

Edition: 2009

Authors: Brenda Farnell, Brenda M. Farnell

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List price: $28.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 6/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Nineteenth-Century Legacy



Bias against the Iconic



Geographical and Historical Spaces: Assiniboine Territory and the Embodiment of Deixis



Moral and Ethical Spaces: Naming Practices and Visual Imagery in Nakota and PST



Getting to the Point: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in PST and Nakota



Storytelling and the Embodiment of Symbolic Form



The Primacy of Movement in Assiniboine Culture



Conclusions



Phonetic Key



Kinetic Key


Notes


Bibliography


Index