TY  - GEN
AU  - Edwards, Terra
TI  - Going tactile: life at the limits of language
SN  - 9780197778036
U1  - 362.410973 EDW 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - People with Disabilites 
KW  - Blindness 
KW  - Deaf
KW  - Language- Deaf Blind People
KW  - Linguistic Anthropology
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - Includes Bibliographical References and Index
N2  - 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.


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