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

Kamil Pietrowiak; Ewa  Pater-Podgórna

doi:10.4467/254395379EPT.18.005.11164

Autor

Kamil Pietrowiak University of Wrocław https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7690-7811
Ewa Pater-Podgórna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4467/254395379EPT.18.005.11164

Słowa kluczowe:

blindness, visual culture, senses, disability, collaborative ethnography

Abstrakt

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.

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Kamil Pietrowiak - University of Wrocław

Doktor etnologii, absolwent Katedry Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Zainteresowania: metodyka i metodologia badań jakościowych, studia nad niepełnosprawnością, doświadczenie ślepoty

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