Being and hearing : making intelligible worlds in deaf Kathmandu
- Author/Creator:
- Graif, Peter, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Chicago : Hau Books, [2018]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Being and hearing : making intelligible worlds in deaf Kathmandu / by Peter Graif
- Series Titles:
- The Malinowski monographs
Malinowski monographs series.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Deaf culture--Nepal--Kathmandu
Deaf--Nepal--Kathmandu
Sign language
Difference (Philosophy)
Ethnology--Nepal--Kathmandu
Anthropological linguistics
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Arjun: The sense of things -- Intelligible worlds -- Being transparent -- Seeing politics -- Citing signs -- Laxmi: The properties of people.
- Summary:
- "How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on four years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Graif argues that Nepali deaf communities--in their social sensibilities, political projects, and aesthetics of expression--present innovative answers to the very old question of what it means to be different. From pranks and protests, to diverse acts of love and resistance, to renewed distinctions between material and immaterial, deaf communities in Nepal have crafted ways to foreground the habits of perception that shape both their own experiences and how they are experienced by the hearing people around them. By exploring these often overlooked strategies, Being and Hearing makes a unique contribution to ethnography and comparative philosophy."--Publisher website
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936820719902486
- ISBN:
- 9780999157039
0999157035 - OCLC Number:
- 1035416941
- Barcode:
- 010002875652
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