Drawing Spirits in the Sand
Performative Storytelling in the Digital Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3214111 |
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| Authors | David I Tafler (Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 18104-5586, USA), David Tafler (Muhlenberg College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 492 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10090492 |
| OpenAlex | W2969253523 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
For First Nations people living in the central desert of Australia, the performance of oral storytelling drawing in the sand drives new agency in the cultural metamorphosis of communication practices accelerated by the proliferation of portable digital devices. Drawing on the ground sustains the proxemic and kinesthetic aspects of performative storytelling as a sign gesture system. When rendering this drawing supra-language, the people negotiate and ride the ontological divide symbolized by traditional elders in First Nations communities and digital engineers who program and code. In particular, storytelling's chronemic encounter offsets the estrangement of the recorded event and maintains every participants' ability to shape identity and navigate space-time relationships. Drawing storytelling demonstrates a concomitant capacity to mediate changes in tradition and spiritual systems. While the digital portals of the global arena remain open and luring, the force enabled by the chiasmic entwinement of speech, gesture and sand continues to map the frontier of First Nations identity formation and reformation
Aesthetics · Art · Gesture · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Performative utterance · Sign language · Social science · Sociology · Storytelling · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
From Hand to Mouth
Course in General Linguistics
Phenomenology of Perception
The Primacy of Movement
Grammars of Space
The Primacy of Movement
On the Study of Religious Commitment
Mapping Cyberspace
Commentary
Mapping Dreams/Dreaming Maps
Deconstruction the end of writing
The Internet as Distributor and Mirror of Religious and Ritual Knowledge
(Re)Producing Country
Words, Ontologies and Aboriginal Databases
Art, as Device
Closer to the Ground
Anchoring, Iconicity, and Orientation in Guugu Yimithirr Pointing Gestures
| Highly cited | No |
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