Disability and culture

by Ingstad, Benedicte Whyte, Susan Reynolds

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Title Statements

Full title :Disability and culture / edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte.

Summary

Spurred by the United Nation's International Decade for Disabled Persons and medical anthropology's coming of age, anthropologists have recently begun to explore the effects of culture on the lives of the mentally and physically impaired. This major collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers for the first time a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. Using research undertaken in a wide variety of settings -- from a longhouse in central Borneo to a community of Turkish immigrants in Stockholm -- contributors explore the significance of mental, sensory, and motor impairments in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about humanity and personhood.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Los Angeles
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1995.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 307 pages)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1033670628
LC Classification:HV1568
Dewey Decimal:305.9/0816

ONE: Disability and Culture: An Overview -- PART ONE: Disability, Cosmology, and Personhood: Introduction -- PART TWO: Social Contexts of Disability: Introduction.