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Deaf in Japan: Sinign and the Politics of Identity

Deaf in Japan: Sinign and the Politics of Identity

Nakamura, Karen

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyJapanese History

ISBN10: 0801443504
ISBN13: 9780801443503
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Jul 24 2006
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Karen Nakamura combines history, life histories, ethnographic observation, and politico-linguistic analysis of sign language in Japan to open up sensible and much-needed debate on the multiplicity of the Japanese and their culture.―Sonia Ryang, The Johns Hopkins University

Until the mid-1970s, deaf people in Japan had few legal rights and little social recognition. Legally, they were classified as minors or mentally deficient, unable to obtain driver's licenses or sign contracts and wills. Many worked at menial tasks or were constantly unemployed, and schools for the deaf taught a difficult regimen of speechreading and oral speech methods rather than signing. After several decades of activism, deaf men and women are now largely accepted within mainstream Japanese society.

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