Many Ways to be Deaf
International Variation in Deaf Communities
Published on 16. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
978-1-56368-578-1 (ISBN)
Description
Many Ways to Be Deaf circles the globe - from Asia and Russia to Europe and the United Kingdom, from Africa to South America to the United States - profiling the immense diversity of the world's Deaf communities. Special attention is paid not only to the historical and linguistic origins of each community's signed language, but to the ways each language has been influenced by the hearing population and foreign influences. Twenty-four international contributors of different cultural and scholastic backgrounds make this appraisal truly diverse and expansive in scope.
Reviews / Votes
"In compiling the material for their work, the researchers may have inadvertently set the stage for a more general understanding of world cultures and for valuing diversity. If the Deaf communities of the world can value each other, perhaps we all can." (Choice)"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington, DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56368-578-1 (9781563685781)
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Person
Leila Monaghan is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Constanze Schmaling is a linguist at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg. Karen Nakamura is associate professor of anthropology and East Asian studies at Yale University. Graham H. Turner is senior lecturer in the British Sign Language and Deaf Studies Program at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.