Going Tactile
Life at the Limits of Language

By (author) Terra Edwards

ISBN13: 9780197778036

Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 01/08/2025

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Description
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.
Acknowledgements Chapter One: Life at the Limits of Language Chapter Two: Creating DeafBlind Identity Chapter Three: The Collapse of the World Chapter Four: The Protactile Movement Chapter Five: Being for Speaking Chapter Six: The Laminated Environment Conclusions References Index
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication
  • General (US: Trade)
Height:226
Width:150
Spine:13
Weight:227.00
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