Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of DeafhoodThis text presents a Traveller's Guide to deaf culture, starting from the premise that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the concepts of culture, on their own terms and in their many guises and to apply these to deaf communities. The author illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for those communities by the medical concept of deafness and contrasts this with his new concept of deafhood, a process by which every deaf child, family and adult implicitly explains their existance in the world to themselves and each other. |
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Contents
IV | 1 |
VI | 2 |
VII | 7 |
VIII | 9 |
IX | 12 |
X | 14 |
XI | 20 |
XII | 21 |
LXXII | 249 |
LXXIII | 253 |
LXXIV | 259 |
LXXV | 262 |
LXXVI | 267 |
LXXIX | 271 |
LXXX | 272 |
LXXXI | 275 |
XIII | 26 |
XIV | 32 |
XV | 39 |
XVI | 44 |
XVII | 48 |
XVIII | 52 |
XIX | 56 |
XX | 59 |
XXI | 64 |
XXII | 69 |
XXIII | 72 |
XXIV | 75 |
XXV | 76 |
XXVI | 83 |
XXVII | 84 |
XXVIII | 88 |
XXIX | 90 |
XXX | 92 |
XXXI | 94 |
XXXIII | 96 |
XXXIV | 102 |
XXXV | 113 |
XXXVI | 119 |
XXXVII | 120 |
XXXVIII | 123 |
XXXIX | 124 |
XL | 128 |
XLI | 132 |
XLII | 135 |
XLIII | 143 |
XLIV | 146 |
XLV | 152 |
XLVI | 157 |
XLVII | 161 |
XLVIII | 163 |
XLIX | 169 |
L | 171 |
LI | 176 |
LII | 178 |
LIII | 183 |
LIV | 185 |
LV | 190 |
LVI | 196 |
LVII | 198 |
LVIII | 199 |
LIX | 208 |
LX | 215 |
LXI | 220 |
LXII | 221 |
LXIII | 225 |
LXIV | 227 |
LXV | 230 |
LXVI | 232 |
LXVII | 233 |
LXIX | 237 |
LXX | 238 |
LXXI | 245 |
LXXXII | 277 |
LXXXIII | 281 |
LXXXIV | 282 |
LXXXV | 286 |
LXXXVI | 287 |
LXXXVII | 288 |
LXXXVIII | 289 |
LXXXIX | 295 |
XC | 297 |
XCI | 303 |
XCII | 305 |
XCIII | 315 |
XCIV | 321 |
XCV | 322 |
XCVI | 323 |
XCVII | 329 |
XCVIII | 332 |
XCIX | 335 |
C | 339 |
CI | 342 |
CII | 347 |
CIII | 360 |
CIV | 366 |
CV | 369 |
CVI | 370 |
CVII | 376 |
CVIII | 380 |
CIX | 385 |
CX | 391 |
CXI | 397 |
CXII | 399 |
CXIII | 401 |
CXIV | 402 |
CXV | 406 |
CXVI | 408 |
CXVII | 409 |
CXVIII | 410 |
CXIX | 412 |
CXX | 422 |
CXXI | 430 |
CXXII | 434 |
CXXV | 436 |
CXXVI | 438 |
CXXVII | 439 |
CXXVIII | 444 |
CXXX | 449 |
CXXXII | 453 |
CXXXIV | 457 |
CXXXV | 462 |
CXXXVI | 463 |
CXXXVII | 467 |
CXXXVIII | 469 |
CXXXIX | 472 |
CXL | 475 |
CXLI | 477 |
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Page iii - The critical ontology of ourselves has to be considered not, certainly, as a theory, a doctrine, nor even as a permanent body of knowledge that is accumulating; it has to be conceived as an attitude, an ethos, a philosophical life in which the critique of what we are is at one and the same time the historical analysis of the limits that are imposed on us and an experiment with the possibility of going beyond them.