Drawn from the Ground
Sound, Sign and Inscription in Central
Australian Sand Stories
By Jennifer Green
This book is hot off the press; a unique
and impressive contribution to the literature about Australian Aboriginal
storytelling.
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.
Although this is an academic work, it is
accessible and will be of great interest to many of you who are curious to
learn more about Aboriginal storytelling. But more than that, this 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.
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.
Drawn from the Ground is published by
Cambridge University Press
