Deaf Space in Adamorobe : An Ethnographic Study of a Village in Ghana /

Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation. In the United States, Martha's Vineyard gained mythical fame as a paradise for deaf people where everyone signed up until the 19th century. That...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kusters, Annelies (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Ethnology.
Deaf > Social life and customs.
Deaf > Marriage.
Deaf culture.
Akan (African people)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Deaf culture > Ghana > Adamorobe.
Deaf > Ghana > Adamorobe > Social life and customs.
Deaf > Marriage > Ghana > Adamorobe.
Akan (African people) > Ghana > Adamorobe.
Ethnology > Ghana > Adamorobe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A deaf anthropologist's journey
  • Adamorobe: an Akan village in the Akwapim Valley
  • A deaf-inclusive village "since time immemorial until the end of days"
  • "Deaf same"? Deaf spaces and deaf sociality
  • Explanations of deafness in Adamorobe
  • The marriage prohibition and deaf-deaf relationships
  • Deaf education, the deaf church group, literacy, and Ghanaian sign language
  • Charitable aid, development projects, and group leadership
  • Visitors, researchers, and tourism
  • The end of the "deaf village"?

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