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Being and Hearing: Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu (Malinowski Monographs) by Peter Graif is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Being and Hearing: Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu (Malinowski Monographs) about?
How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on three years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Graif argues that Nepali deaf communities—in their social sensibilities, political projects, and aestheti
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Graif
- Publisher
- Malinowski Monographs
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780999157039
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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