Drawn From the Ground - Sound, Sign and Inscription in Central Australian Sand Stories

Provides a multimodal analysis of women's sand stories from Central Australia, showing how speech, sign, gesture and drawing work together.

List of 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.

About the author

Jennifer Green is a Research Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She has over 30 years' experience working on projects documenting indigenous languages, history and visual arts.

Summary

Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. This detailed study takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Green, Jennifer (University of Melbourne) Green, Green Jennifer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781316645369
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64536-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Language Culture and Cognition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Linguistics, Australia, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to First Nations peoples in Australia