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Home Signs: An Ethnography of Life beyond and beside Language de Joshua O. Reno

Home Signs: An Ethnography of Life beyond and beside Language

Autor Joshua O. Reno
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2024

În Home Signs, Joshua O. Reno propune o abordare etnografică profundă și personală asupra vieții dincolo de limbajul articulat. Ediția de față, publicată de University of Chicago Press, marchează o tranziție importantă în opera autorului: dacă în lucrări precum Pandemic Health and Fitness sau Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Joshua O. Reno explora dinamica comunităților și a sănătății în contexte de criză, noul volum restrânge cadrul observației la intimitatea domestică, fără a pierde rigoarea academică. Remarcăm modul în care autorul folosește experiența de îngrijitor al fiului său non-verbal, Charlie, pentru a chestiona fundamentele comunicării umane.

Structura cărții urmărește o progresie de la senzorial la social. Capitole precum „A Ticklish Subject” și „Significant Others” explorează tactilitatea și prezența celuilalt ca forme de dialog primar. Credem că această lucrare completează perspectiva oferită de Children's Unspoken Language de Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon; în timp ce volumul lui Doherty-Sneddon se concentrează pe etapele de dezvoltare psihologică a copilului, Home Signs adaugă o dimensiune filosofică și antropologică, argumentând că gesturile „de casă” (home signs) — de la o simplă privire laterală la mișcarea unui deget — nu sunt doar substitute ale cuvintelor, ci forme de viață în sine. Tonul este unul precis, evitând sentimentalismul, preferând în schimb o analiză a modului în care dizabilitatea reformulează conceptul de „normalitate”. Cartea refuză ideea paternalistă că persoanele non-verbale sunt captive în tăcere, demonstrând că ele sunt, în fapt, în comunicare constantă cu mediul lor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226831268
ISBN-10: 0226831264
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din antropologie, sociologie și studii despre dizabilitate, dar și părinților care caută o înțelegere mai profundă a comunicării non-verbale. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra intimității, învățând să recunoască semnalele subtile care definesc relațiile umane atunci când limbajul eșuează. Este o pledoarie pentru recunoașterea autonomiei și vocii proprii a persoanelor care nu folosesc cuvinte.

Despre autor

Joshua O. Reno este un antropolog cultural recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina observația participantă cu analize sociale complexe. Lucrările sale anterioare, precum As If Already Free (care explorează moștenirea lui David Graeber) sau studiile sale despre fitness și pandemie, demonstrează un interes constant pentru modul în care structurile sociale influențează viața cotidiană și libertatea individuală. În Home Signs, el își aplică expertiza etnografică asupra propriei vieți de familie, transformând experiența personală într-o resursă academică valoroasă pentru înțelegerea dizabilității și a comunicării.

Descriere scurtă

An intimate account of an anthropologist’s relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.

Home Signs grew out of the anthropologist Joshua Reno’s experience of caring for and trying to communicate with his teenage son, Charlie, who cannot speak. To manage interactions with others, Charlie uses what are known as “home signs,” gestures developed to meet his need for expression, ranging from the wiggle of a finger to a subtle sideways glance. Though he is nonverbal, he is far from silent: in fact, he is in constant communication with others.
 
In this intimate reflection on language, disability, and togetherness, the author invites us into his and Charlie’s shared world. Combining portraits of family life and interviews with other caregivers, Reno upends several assumptions, especially the idea that people who seem not to be able to speak for themselves need others to speak on their behalf. With its broad exploration of nonverbal communication in both human and nonhuman contexts, Home Signs challenges us to think harder about what it means to lead a “normal” life and to connect with another person.

Notă biografică

Joshua Reno is professor and graduate director of anthropology at Binghamton University. He is the author of several books, including Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness and, with Britt Halvorson, Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest.

Cuprins

Preface: Writing in the Wan Chum Genre
Introduction
Chapter One: Aggressive Stance
Chapter Two: A Ticklish Subject
Chapter Three: Technically Speaking
Chapter Four: Significant Others
Chapter Five: Cacas Ergo Sum
Mmmmmm
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"Reno's [book] soars when it broaches taboos around disability and the question of which lives are worth living, and why…His treatment was gratifying for this linguistic anthropologist to read, as it showcases the usefulness of our theoretical tools for the anthropology of disability. It is also (if I'm being honest) a little humbling to see someone not trained as a linguistic anthropologist use those tools so adeptly to decenter the innatist speaking subject of Chomskyan linguistics, in a breezily erudite tour from Ray Birdwhistell and Edward T. Hall through Elizabeth Bates, Elinor Ochs, Bambi Schieffelin, Asta Cekaite, and the Goodwins. That genealogy only scratches the surface: If you never thought you needed a cultural history of tickling, you do, and Reno has written one.”

"This deeply personal yet analytical style is nothing short of extraordinary.”

"When seeing the visual illusion titled Rubin’s Vase, we 'make sense' of the image by drawing on a lifetime of experience. The vase may jump out first, until our attention fixates on a detail interpreted as background initially, and suddenly the two profiled faces emerge from the same sensory input. Not only is the image perceived in a new way—it’s impossible to 'unsee' the new perception. What once was negative space is suddenly foregrounded. Reno’s book Home Signs does the same. He teases our brains into focusing on negative space, on the details of human communication that are typically ignored, downplayed, or relegated to the background in our perceptions of language, and once you see what was previously overlooked, you can’t 'unsee' it.”
 

“Writing with precision and vulnerability, Reno illuminates an aspect of our lives together that is ubiquitous, yet rarely noticed: the subtle, deeply idiosyncratic ways we make sense to one another beyond and beside the languages some of us type, sign, and speak. He builds on a dizzying array of interlocutors. But at the heart of the book is Reno’s relationship with his sweet-tempered, irascible, mysterious teenage son and the slaps, snaps, caresses, sounds, and silences that make up their shared repertoire of home signs. Setting a new standard for ethical, rigorous scholarship, Home Signs shows us how to move beyond debates over the limits of the human to the places of danger and creativity where sociality lives.”

“In this richly innovative book, Reno delves into the intricacies of communication among alingual children and their families and caretakers, unsettling stubborn assumptions about language, cognitive disability, and human sociality. As with the best of anthropology, Home Signs is ultimately about life and our creative abilities to relate to others.”

“Reno puts into words (ironically!) so many things that we never dared to say aloud throughout the entire book. More than that, you make theoretical interventions that can have an impact on the world in concrete ways. I was moved to tears in every chapter, and had to write to express my gratitude to you for writing this.”

"What Reno has done here is truly extraordinary. I think it’s one of the most intriguing and amazing pieces of academic writing that I’ve read in a very long time. If ever. Incredibly smart, incredibly moving.”
 

“Home Signs is superb. Brilliantly done. It's a major feat to write a book that weaves the personal into a work that is also scholarly and sophisticated.”