A man without words / Susan Schaller ; foreword by Oliver Sacks.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley, California ; Los Angeles, California ; London, England : University of California Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (218 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520959316
- 0520959310
- Ildefonso
- Ildefonso
- Deaf people -- United States -- Biography
- Mexicans -- United States -- Biography
- Deaf people -- Means of communication -- United States
- Personnes sourdes -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Personnes sourdes -- Moyens de communication -- États-Unis
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Deaf
- Deaf -- Means of communication
- Mexicans
- United States
- anthropologists
- born deaf
- challenges of education
- cultural anthropology
- graduate student
- immigrant studies
- intelligent but deaf
- learning to communicate
- living in isolation
- memoir
- mexican indian biography
- mute
- recluse
- sign language
- teaching sign language
- 362.4/2/092 23
- HV2534.I53 A3 2012eb
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"Second edition with new material."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218).
Print version record.
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehe.
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CHAPTER -- 2 CHAPTER -- 3 CHAPTER -- 4 CHAPTER -- 5 CHAPTER -- 6 CHAPTER -- 7 CHAPTER -- 8 CHAPTER -- 9 CHAPTER -- 10 CHAPTER -- 11 CHAPTER -- 12 CHAPTER -- 13 CHAPTER -- 14 CHAPTER -- 15 CHAPTER -- 16 CHAPTER -- 17 CHAPTER -- 18 IL DEFONSO'S CHAPTER -- AFTERWORD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUTH THE AUTHOR
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