Going Tactile : Life at the Limits of Language
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language
ISBN-10
0197778038
ISBN-13
9780197778036
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 2025
Print length
162 Pages
Weight
227 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.00 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
SociolinguisticsSign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication
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In Going Tactile, Terra Edwards explores life in DeafBlind communities in the U.S. through an ethnographic lens. Drawing on thirty months of anthropological fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, the author shows how the "protactile movement" of the 1990s created new ways of communicating, interacting, and navigating through touch. Assessing the limits of language and representation, this book contextualizes linguistic and interactional work that has been conducted in the U.S. for scholars and students of Deaf studies, anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics.
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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