Disability and Culture
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520083628
ISBN13:9780520083622
Release Date:February 1995
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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An Excellent Introduction to Disability and Culture
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Published in 1995 this collection was on the edge of the disability studies movement. Though later text may have surpassed this early edition it is invaluable for it's "medical anthropology" approach to viewing aspects of disability. It contributes to the growing body of literature that examines disability as a socio-political construction rather than just a medical condition.
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