Disability and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Benedicte Ingstad is Professor of Medical Anthropology! University of Oslo. Susan Reynolds Whyte is Associate Professor! Institute of Anthropology! University of Copenhagen. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. It explores the significance of mental, sensory and motor impairments in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about humanity. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTRIBUTORS : Frank J. Bruun Patrick Devlieger Ronald Frankenberg Bernhard Helander Benedicte Ingstad Judith Monks Robert Murphy Ida Nicolaisen Lisbeth Sachs Nayinda Sentumbwe Aud Talle Susan Reynolds Whyte

Product details

• Authors: Benedicte Ingstad, Benedicte Whyte Ingstad
• Assisted by: Benedicte Ingstad (Editor), Ingstad Benedicte (Editor), Susan Reynolds Whyte (Editor), Susan R. Whyte (Editor), Susan Reynolds Whyte (Editor), Whyte Susan Reynolds (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.1995
• EAN: 9780520083622
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08362-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social groups, Disability: social aspects, Social groups, communities and identities