Going tactile: life at the limits of language
Edwards, Terra
Going tactile: life at the limits of language - New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. - viii, 150 p.: pbk.: 23 cm. - Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language .
Includes Bibliographical References and Index
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.
9780197778036
Social Issues
People with Disabilites 
Blindness 
Deaf
Language- Deaf Blind People
Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
362.410973 EDW
Going tactile: life at the limits of language - New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. - viii, 150 p.: pbk.: 23 cm. - Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language .
Includes Bibliographical References and Index
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.
9780197778036
Social Issues
People with Disabilites 
Blindness 
Deaf
Language- Deaf Blind People
Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics
362.410973 EDW
