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.
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Going Tactile invites us to explore the transformative world of the protactile movement. Terra Edwards illuminates the profound ways Deaf Blind individuals navigate life beyond sight and sound with rigor and compassion. Going Tactile redefines language, identity, and community, a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic anthropology. * Miyako Inoue, Associate Professor of Anthropology and, by courtesy, of Linguistics, Stanford University * What is it like to live at the limits of language? And where does one go to ground a politics after the world has collapsed? In Going Tactile, Terra Edwards tracks the origins of the Protactile Movement and the emergence of DeafBlind Identity. Working closely with brilliant activists and theorists in the DeafBlind community, and building on almost two decades of ethnographic fieldwork and linguistic analysis, she shows how DeafBlind people established autonomous spaces away from sighted norms and, in those spaces, 'willed an entire world into being'. In this superb study, Edwards ultimately reframes the relation between language and thought, by focusing on residence in the world as opposed to representations of the world. She thereby inaugurates a paradigm that she calls, Being for Speaking. * Paul Kockelman, Department of Anthropology, Yale University * The author's discussion of how language is (in)effectively used as a means of representing and navigating the world-and methods to improve such communication-is one of the book's greatest strengths. * H. Caldwell, CHOICE *
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Höhe: 230 mm
Breite: 153 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
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978-0-19-777803-6 (9780197778036)
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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.
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Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor, University of Chicago
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
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