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Signing and Belonging in Nepal

Af: Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Engelsk Hardback

Signing and Belonging in Nepal

Af: Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Engelsk Hardback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 176
ISBN-13: 9781563686641
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1563686643
Kategori: Sociolingvistik
Udg. Dato: 30 jun 2016
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 160mm
Forlag: Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato: 30 jun 2016
Forfatter(e): Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Forfatter(e) Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway


Kategori Sociolingvistik


ISBN-13 9781563686641


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 176


Udgave


Længde 14mm


Bredde 236mm


Højde 160mm


Udg. Dato 30 jun 2016


Oplagsdato 30 jun 2016


Forlag Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

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