Feeling Visuality. Ideas of the Congenitally Blind People on the Sense of Sight and the Ability to See

• Authors: Kamil Pietrowiak , Ewa Pater-Podgórna

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Feeling Visuality. Ideas of the Congenitally Blind People on the Sense of Sight and the Ability to See

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The aim of this article is to present the way congenitally blind individuals understand and imagine the functioning of sight and its general value. The Author discusses the category of visual culture, values and meanings attributed to visual cognition, as well as selected theories on blindness that significantly affect the worldview of the research participants. The empirical base of this presentation is ethnographic research on the practices and strategies of blind individuals, conducted in 2011–2017.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 81-101

Dates

published

2018-11-20

Contributors

author

Kamil Pietrowiak

author

Ewa Pater-Podgórna

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/254395379EPT.18.005.11164