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Deaf to the Marrow
Audrey C. Cooper
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Description for Deaf to the Marrow
In this work, Audrey C. Cooper develops ethnographic and language-centered accounts of Deaf social organizing in Viet Nam. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. .
In Deaf to the Marrow, public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986 to the present), Cooper describes the ways that signed-language practices, ideologies, policies, and programming shape and are shaped by Deaf people's social engagement in and around Ho Chi Minh City. Drawing on research data and work with Vietnamese Deaf colleagues covering an eight-year span, Cooper develops ethnographic and language-centered accounts of Deaf social organizing. These accounts illuminate the ways that Deaf citizens are assuming self-determining ... Read more
In Deaf to the Marrow, public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986 to the present), Cooper describes the ways that signed-language practices, ideologies, policies, and programming shape and are shaped by Deaf people's social engagement in and around Ho Chi Minh City. Drawing on research data and work with Vietnamese Deaf colleagues covering an eight-year span, Cooper develops ethnographic and language-centered accounts of Deaf social organizing. These accounts illuminate the ways that Deaf citizens are assuming self-determining ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781563686856
SKU
V9781563686856
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About Audrey C. Cooper
Audrey C. Cooper is an assistant professor and director of the MA Program in International Development at Gallaudet University.
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