Going Tactile

Life at the Limits of Language

Terra Edwards (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-777803-6 (ISBN)

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In the 2010s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle called into question the community's dependence on sighted interpreters and sought new ways of communicating, interacting, and navigating through touch. This effort became the "protactile movement," and it spread quickly across the country. In Going Tactile, Anthropologist Terra Edwards draws on thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, to show how autonomous spaces away from sighted norms were created and life was re-imagined. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on the nature of language, its limits, and what it means to find a new way of being in the world.

Terra Edwards is a linguistic anthropologist in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2014 from The University of California, Berkeley, and has held faculty positions in the department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University. Her research, rooted in long-standing collaborations with DeafBlind individuals and communities, has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and has been published in Anthropological Theory, Language, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Language in Society, among other academic journals.

Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Life at the Limits of Language
Chapter Two: Creating DeafBlind Identity
Chapter Three: The Collapse of the World
Chapter Four: The Protactile Movement
Chapter Five: Being for Speaking
Chapter Six: The Laminated Environment
Conclusions
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 226 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-777803-8 / 0197778038
ISBN-13	978-0-19-777803-6 / 9780197778036
Zustand	Neuware