Going Tactile

Life at the Limits of Language
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-777802-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 830 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Terra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.