Being and Hearing Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu

"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 wi...

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Main Author: Graif, Peter (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: HAU Books 2018
Series:Malinowski Monographs
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