Deaf Space in Adamorobe
An Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana
Published on 10. April 2015
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-56368-632-0 (ISBN)
Description
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation, one being the Akan village in Ghana called Adamorobe. Annelies Kusters traveled to Adamorobe to conduct an ethnographic study of both the deaf and hearing populations in the village. She reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington, DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
24 photographs, 11 figures, 3 tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56368-632-0 (9781563686320)
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Annelies Kusters is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany.