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Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation, one being the Akan village in Ghana called Adamorobe. Annelies Kusters traveled to Adamorobe to conduct an ethnographic study of both the deaf and hearing populations in the village. She reveals how deaf people in Adamorobe did not live in a social paradise but that they created their own ""Deaf Space"" by seeking each other out to form a society of their own.

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The evidence-based, informed and discursive way of writing is refreshing and the power of the book lies in the way in which difficult and sometimes ambiguous ideologies surrounding deafness are discussed with insight, rigour and a lightness of touch. Anyone interested in deaf studies and extraordinary language communities should read Deaf Space in Adamorobe. This book will also inspire anthropologists and ethnographic researchers as a significant and novel contribution to the study of people and language in intriguing and exceptional socio-cultural contexts. --Disability and Society

"""The evidence-based, informed and discursive way of writing is refreshing and the power of the book lies in the way in which difficult and sometimes ambiguous ideologies surrounding deafness are discussed with insight, rigour and a lightness of touch. Anyone interested in deaf studies and extraordinary language communities should read Deaf Space in Adamorobe. This book will also inspire anthropologists and ethnographic researchers as a significant and novel contribution to the study of people and language in intriguing and exceptional socio-cultural contexts.""-- ""Disability and Society"""

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Annelies Kusters is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany.

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