What exactly is the difference between UN convention on Rights of Persons
with Disabilities and its optional protocols beyond the obvious or even
obvious ?
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Vandana
On Tue, October 6, 2009 11:49 am, m. miles wrote:
> .
> 3000 years of Deaf History resources open online:
>
> "Deaf People, Sign Language & Communication, in Ottoman & Modern
> Turkey: observations and excerpts from 1300 to 2008, from sources in
> English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin and Turkish, with
> introduction
> and some annotation" is now open online, at:
> www.independentliving.org/miles200907.html and .pdf
>
> I have also just revised the shorter annotated bibliog, "Hittite Deaf Men
> in the
> 13th Century BC", within the context of ancient and medieval evidence of
> deaf people in the Middle East, at:
> www.independentliving.org/docs7/miles200809.html and .pdf
>
> In the past 12 years I was collecting historical evidence on deaf people
> and
> sign language at Istanbul and more widely in the Ottoman empire, and in
> 20th
> century Turkey, in several European languages. During the past year, more
> sources from Turkish were added. It has also been stimulating and
> informative to correspond with Ezgi Dikici, whose MA thesis, giving useful
> coverage of deaf people in Turkish history, became available on the web.
>
> I decided to put the whole collection of Ottoman textual evidence online,
> full
> text (subject to copyright limits for the 20th century), in date order,
> with
> introduction and annotation. More than 250 sources are cited and quoted.
> The normal academic practice would have been to 'get a book out of it'.
> But
> publishers do not like to print a book for sale and then find the entire
> contents
> have been made freely available! Better just to put the materials online,
> where millions can find them if they wish, and maybe a few hundred will
> actually study them, and make up their own minds, write their own
> articles, or
> whatever they wish.
>
> To improve access, the webmaster has linked up a 'Quick Tour', where
> readers can hop through a sample of interesting text over several
> centuries,
> and then decide whether they want to dive in deeper. Some URLs also
> appear of graphics related to deaf people in the Ottoman era. Researchers
> will of course skim through the whole collection, and could probably think
> of
> many ways to improve the annotations. I hope too that teachers at various
> levels will have a dip in the sea of texts, and will pick out some that
> their
> students can read and discuss.
>
> There are remarkable historical treasures in Turkey, for the Deaf World
> and
> its history, and historical sign linguistics. The archaeological
> evidence of
> Hittite Deaf men in ancient Anatolia (Turkey) tells of probably the
> earliest
> deaf people functioning as a team. How did those Hittite Deaf people
> communicate with one another -- (i) by writing little notes in cuneiform
> on
> soft clay tablets? (ii) by training themselves to wiggle their ears in a
> secret
> code? (iii) by raising their hands and arms to make signs, along with
> nodding their heads with eye movements and facial signals? The cuneiform
> texts mentioning Deaf Hittites have not yet provided an answer to this
> question – but thousands more are being dug up and deciphered, which may
> eventually shed more light on the evidence already in hand!
>
> Respectfully submitted…
>
> M. Miles
> West Midlands, UK
>
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