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Signing and Belonging in Nepal /

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 boo...

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Autor principal: Hoffmann-Dilloway, Erika (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note of Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Transciption
  • 1: "I See That You Are Deaf"
  • 2: Historical and Cultural Context
  • 3: "My Mother Doesn't Look Like That": Nepali Sign Language as Mother Tongue
  • 4: "Here in Nepal There Are No Old Deaf People": Homesigners, Copying, and Competence
  • 5: "Action Speaks": Producing Bikasi Hearing People in the Bakery Cafe
  • 6: Deaf in a "New Nepal"
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index.