ANTH 217 Chapter Notes - Chapter images of differences: deaf: French Sign Language
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Images of difference: deaf and hearing in the united states. images of difference: deaf and hearing in the us summary: problems stem form deaf people being born into hearing families, because they do not share the same language (90%) Has heavy influence on social identity, education, and economics (how?) martha"s vineyard: ethnohistorical alternative. Although the last native deaf person died in 1952, sign language is continued among talking people humanistic images from psychology and science. Babies whose parents are deaf will have sign language as their first language. Babies who are born to hearing parents that don"t adopt sign language are language deprived. Asl and french sign language share a 40% equivalence national theatre of the deaf. Residential schools for death kids, where the teachers were deaf and used sign language to speed up academic trajectory and taught the students to be self-dependant deaf identity through the phenomenology of deaf experience.
