Going Tactile
Life at the Limits of Language
Series: Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 August 2025
- ISBN 9780197778036
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages162 pages
- Size 226x150x12 mm
- Weight 227 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
In Going Tactile, Terra Edwards explores life in DeafBlind communities in the U.S. through an ethnographic lens. Drawing on thirty months of anthropological fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, the author shows how the "protactile movement" of the 1990s created new ways of communicating, interacting, and navigating through touch. Assessing the limits of language and representation, this book contextualizes linguistic and interactional work that has been conducted in the U.S. for scholars and students of Deaf studies, anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics.
MoreLong description:
In the 2010s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle called into question the community's dependence on sighted interpreters and sought new ways of communicating, interacting, and navigating through touch. This effort became the "protactile movement," and it spread quickly across the country. In Going Tactile, Anthropologist Terra Edwards draws on thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, to show how autonomous spaces away from sighted norms were created and life was re-imagined. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on the nature of language, its limits, and what it means to find a new way of being in the world.
Going Tactile invites us to explore the transformative world of the protactile movement. Terra Edwards illuminates the profound ways Deaf Blind individuals navigate life beyond sight and sound with rigor and compassion. Going Tactile redefines language, identity, and community, a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic anthropology.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Life at the Limits of Language
Chapter Two: Creating DeafBlind Identity
Chapter Three: The Collapse of the World
Chapter Four: The Protactile Movement
Chapter Five: Being for Speaking
Chapter Six: The Laminated Environment
Conclusions
References
Index
