| ISBN |
9781107784420 (electronic bk.) |
| 1107784425 (electronic bk.) |
| 9781139237109 (electronic bk.) |
| 1139237101 (electronic bk.) |
| Author |
Green, Jennifer, 1954- (author) |
| Title |
Drawn from the ground : sound, sign and inscription in Central Australian sand stories / Jennifer Green. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Language, culture, and cognition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction; 2. Sand stories as social and cultural practice; 3. Catching a move as it flies: multimodal data collection; 4. Lines in the sand; 5. Body-anchored and airborne action; 6. Ordering, re-drawing and erasure; 7. Vocal style in sand stories; 8. Crossing boundaries. |
| Conditions of access |
Available to Museum Staff only. |
| Summary |
"Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects may be used to represent story characters. This detailed study of Arandic sand stories takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together. This richly illustrated volume is essential reading for anyone interested in language and communication. It adds to the growing recognition that language encompasses much more than speech alone, and shows how important it is to consider the different semiotic resources a culture brings to its communicative tasks as an integrated whole rather than in isolation." |
| Subjects |
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore |
| Storytelling -- Australia -- Central Australia |
| Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Central Australia |
| Semiotics and folk literature -- Australia |
| Available as |
Green, Jennifer, 1954-
Drawn from the ground |
| Series |
Language, culture, and cognition |
| Call number |
Electronic book - Ebsco |
| Internet Site |
Access to full text via EBSCOhost (one user at a time) |
