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Home Signs - Joshua O. Reno

Home Signs

An Ethnography of Life beyond and beside Language

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Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83126-8 (ISBN)
CHF 38,40 inkl. MwSt
An intimate account of an anthropologist’s relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.

Home Signs grew out of the anthropologist Joshua Reno’s experience of caring for and trying to communicate with his teenage son, Charlie, who cannot speak. To manage interactions with others, Charlie uses what are known as “home signs,” gestures developed to meet his need for expression, ranging from the wiggle of a finger to a subtle sideways glance. Though he is nonverbal, he is far from silent: in fact, he is in constant communication with others.
 
In this intimate reflection on language, disability, and togetherness, the author invites us into his and Charlie’s shared world. Combining portraits of family life and interviews with other caregivers, Reno upends several assumptions, especially the idea that people who seem not to be able to speak for themselves need others to speak on their behalf. With its broad exploration of nonverbal communication in both human and nonhuman contexts, Home Signs challenges us to think harder about what it means to lead a “normal” life and to connect with another person.

Joshua Reno is professor and graduate director of anthropology at Binghamton University. He is the author of several books, including Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness and, with Britt Halvorson, Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest.

Preface: Writing in the Wan Chum Genre
Introduction
Chapter One: Aggressive Stance
Chapter Two: A Ticklish Subject
Chapter Three: Technically Speaking
Chapter Four: Significant Others
Chapter Five: Cacas Ergo Sum
Mmmmmm
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 367 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-83126-4 / 0226831264
ISBN-13 978-0-226-83126-8 / 9780226831268
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