Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Map of Adamorobe -- Map 2 of Adamorobe -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Chapter 1: A Deaf Anthropologist's Journey -- Chapter 2: Adamorobe: An Akan Village in the Akwapim Valley -- Chapter 3: A Deaf-Inclusive Village ""Since Time Immemorial until the End of Days"" -- Chapter 4: ""Deaf Same"": Deaf Spaces and Deaf Sociality -- Chapter 5: Explanations of Deafness in Adamorobe -- Chapter 6: The Marriage Prohibition and Deaf-Deaf Relationships -- Chapter 7: Deaf Education, the Deaf Church Group, Literacy, and Ghanaian Sign Language
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"It's a Small World explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME ("I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same") and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national and international encounters (e.g., conferences, sporting events, arts festivals, camps) and the role of political/economic power structures on deaf lives and the creation of deaf worlds. They also consider important questions about how deaf people negotiate DEAF-SAME and deaf difference, with particular attention to relations between deaf people in the global South (countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with access to fewer resources than other countries) and the global North (countries in Europe, along with Canada, the US, Australia, and several other nations with access to and often control of resources). Editors Michele Friedner and Annelies Kusters and their contributors represent a variety of academic and professional fields, from anthropology and linguistics to cultural and religious studies. Each chapter in this original volume highlights a new perspective on the multiple intersections that occur between nationalities, cultures, languages, religions, races, genders, and identities. The text is organized into five sections--Gatherings, Language, Projects, Networks, and Visions. Taken all together, the 23 chapters in this book provide an understanding of how sameness and difference are powerful yet contested categories in deaf worlds"--
Deaf anthropology is a field that exists in conversation with but is not reducible to the interdisciplinary field of deaf studies. Deaf anthropology is predicated upon a commitment to understanding deafnesses across time and space while holding on to "deaf" as a category that does something socially, politically, morally, and methodologically. In doing so, deaf anthropology moves beyond compartmentalizing the body, the senses, and disciplinary boundaries. We analyze the close relationship between anthropology writ large and deaf studies: Deaf studies scholars have found analytics and categories from anthropology, such as the concept of culture, to be productive in analyzing deaf peoples' experiences and the sociocultural meanings of deafness. As we note, however, scholarship on deaf peoples' experiences is increasingly variegated. This review is arranged into four overlapping sections titled Socialities and Similitudes; Mobilities, Spaces, and Networks; Modalities and the Sensorium; and Technologies and Futures.
In this article, we discuss the use of language portraits (LP) as a research method to investigate the embodied multilingual repertoires of people who use both spoken and signed languages. Our discussion is based on two studies in which most participants were deaf (one study also included hearing participants). We primarily offer a methodological contribution to the discussion around LP, since we argue that the study of linguistic repertoires of signers takes the multimodal aspect of the method to a new level. Indeed, by separating modalities (speech, signing, writing), grouping languages in different ways, and mapping them on the LP, the LP discussed in this article represent multimodal languaging more explicitly than in previous studies. Furthermore, by locating particular signs on the LP, several participants literally mapped their body when signing and gesturing in their narratives, thus performing and becoming their language portrait. We suggest that the study of body language (signing/gesturing/pointing) in the verbal narrations accompanying the LP thus expands the multimodal aspect of the analysis of LP.
T he authors argue that Deafhood (a term coined by Dr. Paddy Ladd) is an open-ended concept with an essentialist core. They describe how deaf people who have attended their Deafhood lectures and workshops have perceived different aspects of the Deafhood concept, and compare the basic tenets of Deafhood and criticisms on Deafhood to theories and criticisms on feminist essentialisms. The authors find that the vagueness and wideness of the Deafhood concept is one of its strengths, though they also find that it is in some respects problematic to combine and unite ontology and liberation theory in one concept. They further suggest that the ontological aspects of Deafhood need to be foregrounded. The question of essentialism inherent in the Deafhood concept is also briefly discussed with regard to hearing people, the use of spoken language, and the use of amplification technology and cochlear implants.
Foreword / Tom Humphries and Carol Padden -- Innovations in deaf studies : critically mapping the field / Annelies Kusters, Dai O'Brien, and Maartje De Meulder -- Developments and directions in deaf studies -- Deaf-led deaf studies : using Kaupapa Maori principles to guide the development of deaf research practices / Dai O'Brien -- Academic and community interactions in the formation of deaf studies in the United States / Joseph Murray -- The emergence of a deaf academic professional class during the British deaf resurgence / Maartje De Meulder -- Doing deaf studies in the global South / Michele Friedner -- Rejecting the talkies : Charlie Chaplin's language politics and the future of deaf studies in the humanities / Rebecca Sanchez -- Deaf ontologies -- A dialogue on deaf theology : deaf ontologies seeking theology / Hannah Lewis and Kirk VanGilder -- Sign language peoples' right to be born : the bioethical debate in Karawynn Long's "of silence and slow time" / Rachel Mazique -- Cripping deaf studies and deaf literature : deaf queer ontologies and intersectionality / Rezenet Moges -- Intergenerational responsibility in deaf pedagogies / Marieke Kusters -- Ethnographic methodologies -- Visual methods in deaf studies : using photography and filmmaking in research with deaf people / Dai O'Brien and Annelies Kusters -- Writing the deaf self in autoethnography / Noel O'Connell -- When inclusion excludes : deaf, research : either, none or both / Hilde Haualand -- Negotiating language practices and language ideologies in fieldwork : a reflexive meta-documentation / Lynn Y-S Hou -- Authenticating ownership : claims to local deaf ontologiesdeaf ontologies in the global South / Erin Moriarty Harrelson -- Afterword / Paddy Ladd
In: De Meulder , M , Kusters , A , Moriarty , E & Murray , J 2019 , ' Describe, don't prescribe. The practice and politics of translanguaging in the context of deaf signers. ' , Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development , vol. 40 , no. 10 , pp. 892-906 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2019.1592181
In this article we discuss the practice and politics of translanguaging in the context of deaf signers. Applying the translanguaging concept to deaf signers brings a different perspective by focusing on sensorial accessibility. While the sensory orientations of deaf people are at the heart of their translanguaging practices, sensory asymmetries are often not acknowledged in translanguaging theory and research. This has led to a bias in the use of translanguaging in deaf educational settings overlooking existing power disparities conditioning individual languaging choices. We ask whether translanguaging and attending to deaf signers' fluid language practices is compatible with on-going and necessary efforts to maintain and promote sign languages as named languages. The concept of translanguaging challenges the six decade long project of sign linguistics and by extension Deaf Studies to legitimize the status of sign languages as minority languages. We argue that the minority language paradigm is still useful in finding tools to understand deaf people's languaging practices and close with a call for closer attention to the level of sensory conditions, and the corresponding sensory politics, in shaping languaging practices. The emancipatory potential of acknowledging deaf people's translanguaging skills must acknowledge the historical and contemporary contexts constantly conditioning individual languaging choices.
