Habitar La Sordera: Una Etnografía sobre el mundo sordo en San José, Costa Rica
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2022
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Piedra Corella, Kathy Vanessa
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Esta tesis se desarrolla a partir de tres preguntas vinculadas a la población sorda usuaria de LESCO en Costa Rica; cuáles son las características que otorgan estas personas a su comunidad; cómo se construyen significados alrededor de sus experiencias vinculadas a la sordera y cómo interactúan los conceptos de discapacidad y cultura sorda, con sus experiencias de vida.
Esta investigación etnográfica realizada a través de la interacción en LESCO con las personas que participaron, planteó retos metodológicos significativos que dejan como resultado reflexiones sobre el tipo de datos que pueden ser obtenidos desde la etnografía, así como sobre la complejidad de proponer un análisis interpretativo de un contexto social que se desarrolla a través del gesto como elemento constitutivo de las señas.
Los resultados se presentan en tres capítulos, en respuesta a las preguntas iniciales de investigación, correspondiendo también a diferentes niveles de análisis. La caracterización de la comunidad sorda en San José, parte de una descripción sobre la perspectiva de quienes se reconocen a sí mismos como parte de ella. La definición del mundo sordo busca comprender el universo de sentidos que las personas sordas construyen desde una lógica visual y gestual, para ser parte de un espacio simbólico que les permite existir en sus propios términos. Por último, la discusión sobre habitar la sordera, propone una interpretación sobre las dinámicas internas del mundo sordo, las cuales, pese a manifestar tensiones y contradicciones, sugieren la presencia de elementos que antropológicamente son definidos como propios de una cultura viva.
This thesis elaborate three research questions related to the deaf population that uses LESCO in Costa Rica: which are the characteristics that these people give to their community; how is significance built around their experiences that are linked to deafness; and how the concepts of disability an deaf culture interact with their life experiences. This ethnographic research, carried out by means of interactions in LESCO with the people who participated, presented significant methodological challenges that leave, as a result, afterthoughts about the type of data that can be obtained from ethnography, as well as the complexity of proposing an interpretative analysis in a social context that develops around gestures as a constitutive element of sign language. Results are presented in three chapters, as an attempt to answer the initial research questions and corresponding to different levels of analysis. The characterization of the deaf community in San José starts from a description of the perspective of the people who recognize themselves as its members. The definition of a deaf world seeks to understand the universe of senses which deaf people build from a visual and gestural logic in order to be part of a symbolic space that allows them to exist in their own terms. Finally, the discussion about inhabiting deafness proposes an interpretation of the internal dynamics of this deaf world, which, despite showing tensions and contradictions, suggest the presence of elements that are anthropologically defined as belonging to a living cultura
This thesis elaborate three research questions related to the deaf population that uses LESCO in Costa Rica: which are the characteristics that these people give to their community; how is significance built around their experiences that are linked to deafness; and how the concepts of disability an deaf culture interact with their life experiences. This ethnographic research, carried out by means of interactions in LESCO with the people who participated, presented significant methodological challenges that leave, as a result, afterthoughts about the type of data that can be obtained from ethnography, as well as the complexity of proposing an interpretative analysis in a social context that develops around gestures as a constitutive element of sign language. Results are presented in three chapters, as an attempt to answer the initial research questions and corresponding to different levels of analysis. The characterization of the deaf community in San José starts from a description of the perspective of the people who recognize themselves as its members. The definition of a deaf world seeks to understand the universe of senses which deaf people build from a visual and gestural logic in order to be part of a symbolic space that allows them to exist in their own terms. Finally, the discussion about inhabiting deafness proposes an interpretation of the internal dynamics of this deaf world, which, despite showing tensions and contradictions, suggest the presence of elements that are anthropologically defined as belonging to a living cultura
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SORDERA, ANTROPOLOGÍA, ETNOLOGÍA, LENGUAJE DE SIGNOS, SORDO