Being and Hearing 1st Edition by Peter Graif ISBN 0999157035 9780999157039

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ISBN 10: 0999157035
ISBN 13: 9780999157039
Author: Peter Graif

How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on three years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Graif argues that Nepali deaf communities—in their social sensibilities, political projects, and aesthetics of expression—present innovative answers to the very old question of what it means to be different .
From pranks and protests, to diverse acts of love and resistance, to renewed distinctions between material and immaterial, deaf communities in Nepal have crafted ways to foreground the habits of perception that shape both their own experiences and how they are experienced by the hearing people around them. By exploring

Being and Hearing 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Arjun: The sense of things
Homecomings
Not knowing Arjun
Linguistic dilemmas
Making sense
The presence of Arjun
Chapter 2. Intelligible worlds
Necessary words
Finding the deaf
Deaf geographies
The world is not as we think it is
Raghav: Being two things
Chapter 3. Being transparent
A history of names
Language as a thing seen
The intelligibility of words
Chapter 4. Seeing politics
Intelligibility play
The deafness of mothers and buildings
Lorem Ipsum
Intelligibility replay
Chapter 5. Citing signs
The iconic and the arbitrary
. . . the long and the short
Deaf linguistic theory
Bakery mandates
Chapter 6. Laxmi: The properties of people
The deaf mute speaks!
Being Laxmi, here and there
Talk/intelligible
After words
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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