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Signing and Belonging in Nepal
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
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Description for Signing and Belonging in Nepal
Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKN; CFB; CFZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781563686641
SKU
V9781563686641
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99-11
About Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway is an associate professor and chair of the Anthropology Department at Oberlin College.
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