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Understanding Deaf Culture In Search of Deaf hood
This book presents a ‘Traveler’s Guide’ to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines and human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need to account for the new concept of Deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the concepts of culture on their own terms and in their many guises, and apply them to Deaf communities. The author illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for those communities by the medical concept of ‘deafness’ and contrasts this with his new concept of “Deaf hood,” a process by which every Deaf child, family, and adult implicitly explains their existence in the world to themselves and each other.