[Linganth] Terra Edwards' interview about her brand new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
I am so pleased to announce that Terra Edwards' book, *Going Tactile: Life
on the Limits of Language*,  is published today.  Please check out her
interview with Bob Offer-Westort on the CaMP blog today.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In the 1990s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle
(people who started out as Deaf children, acquired American Sign Language,
and eventually became blind) called into question the community's
dependence on sighted interpreters, and sought new ways of communicating,
interacting, and navigating through touch. This effort became the
"protactile movement," and it spread quickly across the country. In *Going
Tactile*, Terra Edwards explores life in DeafBlind communities in the U.S.
through an ethnographic lens. Drawing on thirty months of anthropological
fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and
community members, the author shows how the protactile movement created
autonomous spaces away from sighted norms. These spaces of communication
call into question the nature of language and the relationship between
being in, and representing, the world. Highlighting the possibility of life
after collapse, *Going Tactile *assesses the limits of language and
representation and, ultimately, what it means to find a new way of being in
the world.
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