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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness in Martha's Vineyard: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard

Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness in Martha's Vineyard: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard

by John W. M. Whiting (Author), Nora Ellen Groce (Author)

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    Paperback 1988

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Examines the reasons for the high rate of hereditary deafness among the population of Martha's Vineyard and discusses the place of deaf people in town life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Jul 1988
ISBN 10: 067427041X
ISBN 13: 9780674270411

Media Reviews
When is deafness neither handicap nor stigma? When, as this remarkable book recounts, the entire hearing community learns from childhood to be bilingual in conventional speech and sign language, and when the deaf are wholly integrated into the community's social, economic, religious, and recreational life...A vivid ethnography of a hearing community's full acceptance of, and adaptation to, deafness. Groce also constructs a fascinating ethnohistory of this genetic disorder. Choice Beautiful and fascinating...I was so moved by Groce's book that the moment I finished it I jumped in the car, with only a toothbrush, a tape recorder, and a camera--I had to see this enchanted island for myself. -- Oliver Sacks New York Review of Books Brilliantly argued and lively...[Groce's] information consists of the oral history she herself garnered from some 50 witnesses, almost all more than 75 years old, and the documents in print and in manuscript that cross-check and extend their first-hand accounts. Human genetic theory, ethnographic counterparts and a clear-eyed account of social attitudes are the analytic tools that form her brief and telling work...[A] persuasive and compassionate investigation. Scientific American Fascinating...Groce accomplishes much just by pointing out that handicaps are something a culture creates, and thus the joint responsibility of us all. That's what places this book squarely within the best tradition of anthropological writing, and makes it both moving and encouraging. Village Voice
Author Bio
Nora Ellen Groce, a cultural and medical anthropologist, received her doctorate from Brown University. She is currently a Fellow at the Family Development Study, Children's Hospital, Boston, and in the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.