Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood |
 enlarge | Author: Paddy Ladd
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 451515
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 502
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1853595454
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.908162
EAN: 9781853595455
ASIN: 1853595454
Publication Date: April 2003
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This text presents a "Traveller's Guide" to deaf culture, starting from the premise that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the concepts of culture, on their own terms and in their many guises and to apply these to deaf communities. The author illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for those communities by the medical concept of "deafness" and contrasts this with his new concept of "deafhood", a process by which every deaf child, family and adult implicitly explains their existance in the world to themselves and each other.
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Understanding Deaf Culture February 16, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
It was very interest and little hard to understand about different of kind deaf culture ASL and Oral and other disablity.
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