Drawn from the ground : sound, sign and inscription in Central Australian sand stories - Green, Jennifer (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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; includes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index.
Keywords: Aboriginal Australians - Folklore; Storytelling - Australia - Central Australia; Women, Aboriginal Australian - Australia - Central Australia; Semiotics and folk literature - Australia