Advocacy For Mexican Sign Language
History, Continuity, and Monaghan’s Contributions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14835340 |
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| Authors | Anne E Pfister (Anne E. Pfister () is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of North Florida. Her research investigates the experience of deafness among deaf children and their families in Mexico City, Mexico, using the analytical lens of medical anthropology and sociocultural-linguistic theoretical approaches. She uses a community-based approach that incorporates participatory and visual methods, including photovoice, digital storytelling, and..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 5-9 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/0888-4552.44.4.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4297989970 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In honoring Leila Monaghan’s contributions to anthropology, I invite readers to recall two of the many things she did well throughout her career and through a variety of research areas. First, Monaghan’s work inspired a sustained focus on advocating for the fundamental rights and dignities of participants, including the right to sign languages. Our 2022 Society for Linguistic Anthropology panel, in honor of Monaghan’s scholarship, remembered her influence as we argued for the need for “access to and access through sign languages.” Second, Monaghan called for an understanding of identities as evolving, pluralistic, and even “experimental,” a word she used to describe the interplay of deaf and Christian identities (Monaghan 1991)
American Sign Language · Honor · Linguistics · Political science · Scholarship · Sign language · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |