Being and Hearing Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu / Peter Graif.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graif, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : HAU Books, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on three years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Graif argues that Nepali deaf communitiesâ€"in their social sensibilities, political projects, and aesthetics of expressionâ€"present innovative answers to the very old question of what it means to be different. From pranks and protests, to diverse acts of love and resistance, to renewed distinctions between material and immaterial, deaf communities in Nepal have crafted ways to foreground the habits of perception that shape both their own experiences and how they are experienced by the hearing people around them.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Arjun: The sense of things p. 1

Homecomings p. 1

Not knowing Arjun p. 7

Linguistic dilemmas p. 16

Making sense p. 23

The presence of Arjun p. 32

Chapter 2 Intelligible worlds p. 37

Necessary words p. 37

Finding the deaf p. 46

Deaf geographies p. 51

The world is not as we think it is p. 61

Raghav: being two things p. 68

Chapter 3 Being transparent p. 77

A history of names p. 77

Language as a thing seen p. 85

The intelligibility of words p. 96

Chapter 4 Seeing politics p. 107

Intelligibility play p. 107

The deafness of mothers and buildings p. 119

Lorem Ipsum p. 129

Intelligibility replay p. 133

Chapter 5 Citing signs p. 137

The iconic and the arbitrary ... p. 137

... the long and the short p. 141

Deaf linguistic theory p. 151

Bakery mandates p. 163

Chapter 6 Laxmi: The properties of people p. 171

The deaf mute speaks! p. 171

Being Laxmi, here and there p. 175

Talk/intelligible p. 183.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101693

ISBN:

9780999157039