Deaf Capital: An Exploration of the Relationship between Stigma and Value in Deaf Multilevel Marketing Participation in Urban India

被引:7
作者
Friedner, Michele [1 ]
机构
[1] MIT, Anthropol Program, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
关键词
deaf; disability; stigma; India; development;
D O I
10.1111/maq.12115
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
This article ethnographically examines how some deaf people in urban India have begun to orient themselves toward the future by participating in multilevel marketing businesses. In the absence of other structural possibilities for deaf future-making, deaf Indians have turned to such businesses in search of social, economic, and moral livelihood. This article analyzes participation in one particular business and asks how participating within the business both enables and disables the cultivation of specific ideas of development. Particular attention is devoted to exploring the multiple registers of the concept of deaf development and how such development may be cultivated through multilevel marketing businesses. This article aims to make a critical intervention in medical anthropology studies of disability by arguing that disability (or in this case deafness) can function as a source of value, therefore highlighting tensions between stigma and value.
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页码:502 / 518
页数:17
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