02.09.01 - Deeply Back Home
19th Clip. Title: Deep and Back Home. 4:19 minutes long. 1:49:03 hours so far.
This is the last clip of the second chapter of the DC Myth.
Enjoy the conclusion the human owl arrived at after traveling all over the continents and observing four basic ways deaf people were treated.
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(to vlog below is desired but will attempt after the posting of all clips of the next 10 chapters {some 100 more} probably in summer of 2008.)
Deafhood Questions
Deafhood Questions for signing deaf people: Have you ever contemplated what deaf people (like you) had lived in the past? How they have fared in their diverse lives all over the globe and across the span of our past? Have you ever experienced abandonment, within your family, or other realms in your lives? What about containment, with people saying (in various shades), “I’ll take care (of it) for you”? Are you , more or less, assimilated in the hearing society? How would you react if you learned there were and ARE hearing people who kill a deaf adult, a deaf teen, a deaf child, or if detected early, a deaf baby? Do you know anyone who left (”abandon”) deaf children? I was a big brother to a deaf boy whose father abandoned him in South America. Would you advocate a total integration of a deaf child in her/his own family? If so, how? By curing deafness or the family mastering sign language - which one? both?
Deafhood Questions for non-signing deaf people: Do you feel that deaf people should learn how to speak and improve your listening skills are the answers in order to be fully integrated with their hearing families, neighborhoods, and societies? If so, why? If not, why? What about the role of sign language in the whole rationale in your head?
“Deafhood” Questions for signing hearing people: As a person closely associated with deaf people in your lives (ranging from the home to the workplace), what should society try to do to better integrate deaf people within the “hearing” society? Fixing deaf people and/or the hearing world? How much on n/either sides?
Deaf Questions for non-signing hearing people: When you encounter situations, finding out, for the first time, that someone among your families, friends, neighbors, or in the community/media describe deaf people and sign language - what are the first reactions you have? Nowadays, curiosity prevail but any other? Utter disgust? Morbid fascination? Bewildering ignorannce?
Commentaries
Deaf History Commentary: In this section, the human owl observed the aboriginals of Australia and returns to its birthplace, contemplating on how best next to find/”help” more people like its deaf earth mother. The second chapter is a reflection of the four basic archtypal scenarios of deaf people’s lives before “history”. For examination into each of the 4 archtypal scenarios, please go to deaf history commentary of the last 7 posts (as of now, not yet done). To aid you in your visualization of prehistoric lives, check the two films (listed below) in order to start wondering about the lives of deaf prehistoric people before us. (films, articles, and academic treatises are still guesswork or therorizing - but variously approximate). Like for the rest of humanity, we can not verify our assumptions of the lives of our distant past. Archae Law, the second chapter, is a creative window into the lives of deaf people in those times.
Deaf Studies commentary: The deaf studies reflection of the second chapter is - Deafness in Families and Societies. The interaction between deaf persons and the whole wide world. The cardinal directions (scenarios) the human owl traveled (observed) is, in a way, a framework for categorizing basic relationship patterns for deaf people among their hearing families, friends, and communities. To see the list of myth chapters, stages of deafhood development, deaf history eras, and deaf studies topics, click TOC page at top of this website.
Working Bibliography:
Auel, Jean. Earth’s Children Series: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Plains of Passage, and The Shelters of the Stone.
Kendon, Adam. 1988. Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic, and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Quest for Fire, director: Jean-Jacques Annaud, 20th Century Fox, 1982.
The Clan of the Cave Bear, director: Michael Chapman, Warner Bros. 1985.