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Deaf Space in Adamorobe
Annelies Kusters
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Description for Deaf Space in Adamorobe
Hardback. Reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 photographs, 11 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; JFFG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation, one being the Akan village in Ghana called Adamorobe. Annelies Kusters traveled to Adamorobe to conduct an ethnographic study of both the deaf and hearing populations in the village. She reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own.
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation, one being the Akan village in Ghana called Adamorobe. Annelies Kusters traveled to Adamorobe to conduct an ethnographic study of both the deaf and hearing populations in the village. She reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own "Deaf Space" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781563686320
SKU
V9781563686320
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99-15
About Annelies Kusters
Annelies Kusters is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany.
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