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Many Ways to Be Deaf
From The Midwest Book Review Collaboratively compiled and edited by Leila Monaghan (Lecturer i the Department of Communication and Cultural at Indiana University, Bloomington); Constanze Schmaling (Linguist at the Institute of German Sign Language at Hamburg University, Germany); Karen Nakamura (Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota); and Graham H. Turner (Senior Lecturer in the Deaf Studies Program at the University of Central Lancashire, Great Britain), Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities is a compendium of scholarly assessments of deaf communities and sign languages worldwide, ranging from Swiss German Sign Language; to the developing sign language of Nicaragua; the conflicts of hearing culture and deaf culture in various nations; some national tendencies to view the hearing improvements of cochlear implants as motive sufficient to dismiss the importance of sign language, and much, much more. An exhaustively researched and critically insightful resource, Many Ways to Be Deaf is an impressive work of scholarship and a ground breaking contribution to Deaf Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists. Leila Monaghan is Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Constanze Schmaling is a linguist at the Institute of German Sign Language at Hamburg University, Germany. Karen Nakamura, an anthropologist, teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Graham H. Turner is Senior Lecturer in the Deaf Studies program at the University of Central Lancashire, Great Britain. ISBN 1-56368-135-8, 7 x 10 casebound, 344 pages, glossary, references, index $76.95s
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