Title Statements
- Full title :Disability and culture / edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte.
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:x, 307 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0520083628, 9780520083622
- oclc:ocn301521918
- LC Classification:HV1568
- Dewey Decimal:305.9/0816
Table of Contents
1. Disability and culture : an overview -- Part I : Disability, cosmology, and personhood -- 2. Persons and nonpersons : disability and personhood among the punan bah of Central Borneo -- 3. A child is a child : disability and equality among the Kenya Maasai -- 4. Disability as incurable illness : health, process, and personhood in Southern Somalia -- 5. Why disabled? the cultural understanding of physical disability in an African society -- 6. Being ill and being me : self, body, and time in multiple sclerosis narratives -- Part II : Social contexts of disability- 7. Encounters : the body silent in America -- 8. Sighted lovers and blind husbands : experiences of blind women in Uganda -- 9. Public discourses on rehabilitation : from Norway to Botswana -- 10. Hero, beggar, or sports star : negotiating the identity of the disabled person in Nicaragua -11. Disability and migration : a case story -- 12. Constructing epilepsy : images and contexts in East Africa -- 13. Mpho ya Modimo -- a gift from god : perspectives on ''Attitudes'' toward disabled persons -- 14. Disability between discourse and experience.
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