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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781563686641 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
305.9 DIL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dilloway, Erika Hoffmann |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Signing and belonging in Nepal |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Gallaudet University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016, |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Washington: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xi; 135 p; |
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hb; |
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23 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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USD |
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30.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framework from an anthropological perspective. In this book, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway presents an accessible examination of deafness in Nepal. As a linguistic anthropologist, she describes the emergence of Nepali Sign Language and deaf sociality in the social and historical context of Nepal during the last decades before the Hindu Kingdom became a secular republic. She then shows how the adoption of an ethno-linguistic model interacted with the ritual pollution model, or the prior notion that deafness results from bad karma. Her focus is on the impact of these competing and co-existing understandings of deafness on three groups: signers who adopted deafness as an ethnic identity, homesigners whose ability to adopt that identity is hindered by their difficulties in acquiring Nepali Sign Language, and hearing Nepalis who interact with Deaf signers. Comparing these contexts demonstrates that both the ethno-linguistic model and the ritual pollution model, its seeming foil, draw on the same basic premise: that both persons and larger social formations are mutually constituted through interaction. Signing and Belonging in Nepal is an ethnography that studies a rich and unique Deaf culture while also contributing to larger discussions about social reproduction and social change. |
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Deaf - Nepal |
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Deaf - Means of Communication |
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Sign Language |
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Anthropological Linguistics |
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Language Arts |
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Sociology |
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Nonfiction |
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Minority Studies |
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Social Science |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
