{"product_id":"do-you-see-what-i-mean-plains-indian-sign-talk-and-the-embodiment-of-action-paperback","title":"Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Farnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlains 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarnell'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 \u003cem\u003eLabanotation\u003c\/em\u003e to create texts of the movement content of these performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first and only ethnographic study of contemporary uses of PST, \u003cem\u003eDo You See What I Mean\u003c\/em\u003e? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda Farnell is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of \u003cem\u003eHuman Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and Invisible in Movement and Dance\u003c\/em\u003e. She is coeditor of the \u003cem\u003eJournal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda Farnell is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and Invisible in Movement and Dance\u003c\/i\u003e. She is coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51818088530208,"sku":"9780803222823","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/74b4cb68a930efc201385070e1af16ba.webp?v=1781116061","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/do-you-see-what-i-mean-plains-indian-sign-talk-and-the-embodiment-of-action-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}