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Joshua O. Reno - Home Signs, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Home Signs

An Ethnography of Life beyond and beside Language

Av Joshua O. Reno

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An intimate account of an anthropologist’s relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.Home Signs grew out of the anthropologist Joshua Reno’s experience of caring for and trying to communicate with his teenage son, Charlie, who cannot speak. To manage interactions with others, Charlie uses what are known as “home signs,” gestures developed to meet his need for expression, ranging from the wiggle of a finger to a subtle sideways glance. Though he is nonverbal, he is far from silent: in fact, he is in constant communication with others.  In this intimate reflection on language, disability, and togetherness, the author invites us into his and Charlie’s shared world. Combining portraits of family life and interviews with other caregivers, Reno upends several assumptions, especially the idea that people who seem not to be able to speak for themselves need others to speak on their behalf. With its broad exploration of nonverbal communication in both human and nonhuman contexts, Home Signs challenges us to think harder about what it means to lead a “normal” life and to connect with another person.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-05-09
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 481 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226831244
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Joshua Reno is professor and graduate director of anthropology at Binghamton University. He is the author of several books, including Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness and, with Britt Halvorson, Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest.

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"Reno's [book] soars when it broaches taboos around disability and the question of which lives are worth living, and why…His treatment was gratifying for this linguistic anthropologist to read, as it showcases the usefulness of our theoretical tools for the anthropology of disability. It is also (if I'm being honest) a little humbling to see someone not trained as a linguistic anthropologist use those tools so adeptly to decenter the innatist speaking subject of Chomskyan linguistics, in a breezily erudite tour from Ray Birdwhistell and Edward T. Hall through Elizabeth Bates, Elinor Ochs, Bambi Schieffelin, Asta Cekaite, and the Goodwins. That genealogy only scratches the surface: If you never thought you needed a cultural history of tickling, you do, and Reno has written one.”

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