Being deaf in a Yucatec Maya community: communication and identity negotiation
My dissertation sheds light on multilayered experiences of identity in an indigenous, Yucatec Maya community where both deaf and hearing persons use sign language. Owing to the history of Spanish colonialism in this region, and as a result of state approaches which see deafness as pathology, the peo...
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McGill University
2013
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