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Seeing Voices

By Oliver , Gallaudet University;Sacks

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
ISBN
9780307365750, 0307365751
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2452550 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1988;Gallaudet University;Deaf -- History;SurditéDeaf--History;Langage par signes;Sourds--Histoire;

Description

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect -- a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work." From the Trade Paperback edition.

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