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Brenda Farnell

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PhD Anthropology University of Manchester
Masters Anthropology University of Manchester
Bachelors Anthropology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Brenda Farnell is a British-American anthropologist and Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois. Her areas of focus include dance, movement, performance, language, and Labanotation. Her work is influenced by Sociocultural Theory, Visual Anthropology, Ethnopoetics, and Semiotic Anthropology. Farnell's use of Labanotation as a research tool has developed dance and performance notation in the field of Anthropology. She focuses on the North American Plains culture areas, including the Nakota, Crow, and Comanche nations. Her work includes extensive study of Plains Sign Language, storytelling practices, Indigenous epistemologies, expressive culture, and endangered language revitalization. She also examines American contemporary dance, choreography, and theatre. She has collaborated with individuals in her field such as Robert Wood, Tim Ingold, Charles R. Varela, Dixie Durr, and Drid Williams.

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Brenda Farnell's Published Works

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Moving Bodies, Acting Selves (1999) (227)
Getting out of the habitus: an alternative model of dynamically embodied social action (2003) (141)
Do You See What I Mean?: Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action (1995) (95)
Ethno-Graphics and the Moving Body (1994) (95)
The Fancy Dance of Racializing Discourse (2004) (45)
Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance (1995) (37)
Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory: I move therefore I am (2012) (33)
The Second Somatic Revolution1 (2008) (31)
Metaphors we move by (1996) (27)
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices (1997) (23)
It Goes Without Saying — But Not Always (1999) (13)
Where Mind is a Verb: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in Plains Indian Sign Talk and Assiniboine (Nakota) Culture (1995) (8)
Movement Notation Systems (1996) (8)
Mindful Body (2018) (8)
Kinesthetic Sense and Dynamically Embodied Action (2011) (8)
Birdwhistell, Hall, Lomax and the Origins of Visual Anthropology (2003) (7)
Dynamic Embodiment in Assiniboine (Nakota) Storytelling (2002) (6)
Ethnography Goes Interactive (1995) (6)
Body, Embodiment (2020) (5)
Tuberculosis of the epididymis. (1983) (5)
Performing precision and the limits of observation (2011) (5)
The Laban Script: A Beginning Text on Movement Writing for Non-Dancers (1990) (5)
Rethinking "Verbal" and "Non-verbal" in Discoursive Performance (2001) (3)
Gesture and Movement " (2011) (3)
Retire the “Chief” (1998) (3)
Zero-Sum Game (2004) (2)
Nak'ota Ma̜k'oc'e: An American Indian Storytelling Performance (1991) (2)
Body Movement Notation (1989) (2)
Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices:Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices (1997) (1)
North American Indian Dance (2003) (1)
Sign Language, Indian (2003) (1)
Spatial Orientation and the Notion of Constant Oppositions (2011) (1)
Kinaesthetic intimacy in a choreographic practice (2017) (1)
Thanks to Reviewers (2010) (0)
The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance@@@The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Analysis of the Iroquois Eagle Dance and Songs@@@War Dance; Plains Indian Musical Performance (1995) (0)
Techniques of the Body (2018) (0)
Notating Indigenous Conceptions of Action and Space in Plains Sign Language (2011) (0)
Linguists Urge Boycott of Illinois (1999) (0)
Moroccan Female Performers Defining the Social Body: Gender On the Market (2016) (0)
Implications of dynamic embodiment for social theory (2012) (0)
Retirement Proceedings for the Chief (1998) (0)

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