Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities [Hardcover]

Leila Monaghan (Author), Constanze Schmaling (Author), Karen Nakamura (Author), Graham H. Turner (Author)

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• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press; 1st edition (May 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563681358
• ISBN-13: 978-1563681356
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #778,045 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I'm a cultural and visual anthropologist who teaches at Yale University. My research focuses on issues of disability and minority social movements in Japan. My first book on sign language, identity, civil society, and deaf social movements in modern Japan was published by Cornell University Press in 2006. Recently, I have been engaged in a new project on schizophrenia and mental illness in rural Japan. While my main interest in minority issues is disabilities, I also work on issues surrounding gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan.

In addition to the books I have on Amazon, I have two films: Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan; and, A Japanese Funeral. The films are both available through Amazon, but for some reason they aren't listed on this author page, you have to search for them by title. Sorry! :-)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A ground breaking contribution to Deaf Studies, August 7, 2003

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This review is from: Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities (Hardcover)

Collaboratively compiled and edited by Leila Monaghan (Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Cultural at Indiana University, Bloomington); Constanze Schmaling (Linguist at the Institute of German Sign Language at Hamburg University, Germany); Karen Nakamura (Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota); and Graham H. Turner (Senior Lecturer in the Deaf Studies Program at the University of Central Lancashire, Great Britain), Many Ways To Be Deaf: Internal Variation In Deaf Communities is a compendium of scholarly assessments of deaf communities and sign languages worldwide, ranging from Swiss German Sign Language; to the developing sign language of Nicaragua; the conflicts of hearing culture and deaf culture in various nations; some national tendencies to view the hearing improvements of cochlear implants as motive sufficient to dismiss the importance of sign language, and much, much more. An exhaustively researched and critically insightful resource, Many Ways To Be Deaf is an impressive work of scholarship and a ground breaking contribution to Deaf Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.