Deaf Utopias? Reviewing the Sociocultural Literature on the World's "Martha's Vineyard Situations"

Autor/in	Kusters, Annelies
Titel	Deaf Utopias? Reviewing the Sociocultural Literature on the World's "Martha's Vineyard Situations"
Quelle	In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 15 (2010) 1, S.3-16 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-4159
DOI	10.1093/deafed/enp026
Schlagwörter	Deafness; Foreign Countries; Literature Reviews; Sociocultural Patterns; Sign Language; Ghana; Indonesia; Israel; Massachusetts; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Ausland; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Gebärdensprache; Indonesien; Master-Studiengang; USA
Abstract	Martha's Vineyard--an island off the East Coast of the United States--is known as a community where "everyone signed" for several hundred years, a utopia in the eyes of many Deaf people. Currently, there exist around the world a number of small similar "shared signing communities," for example, in Mexico, Bali, Israel, and Ghana. A few studies about these have emerged, which give some information about the social and cultural patterns in such communities. Deaf studies researchers have begun the process of "synthesizing" and theorizing this information, and have developed typologies based on "traditional" Western urban Deaf communities. This article critically reviews the existing literature and raises new questions regarding the study and theorizing of such communities. (As Provided).
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