NDLS 289 Special Topics- Deaf and Global South: Primary and Secondary Sources

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Overview

Screenshot showing the differences between primary and secondary sources.


Examples

Specific Examples

Interviews, surveys, fieldwork, and Internet communications via email, blogs, listservs, and newsgroups are also primary sources.

Primary Sources Examples

Primary Source Examples 

Published documents - books, newspapers, pamphlets, advertisements, laws, etc. Example: The Silent Worker, a Deaf newspaper.
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visual documents and artifacts. Example: Ahira Webster diary when he was a student at the NY Institute for the Deaf. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Visual history and traditions. Example: Deaf printing visual history video.

 

 

 

 

 

Photographs: Example: Photo of NTID Deaf students during a 1971 ground-breaking ceremony.

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