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| Title: | Disability and culture / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Benedicte Ingstad; Susan Reynolds Whyte |
| ISBN: | 0520083601 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780520083608 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520083628 (paper : alk. paper); 9780520083622 (paper : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Description: | x, 307 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Disability and culture: an overview / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Benedicte Ingstad -- Persons and nonpersons: disability and personhood among the Punan Bah of Central Borneo / Ida Nicolaisen -- Child is a child: disability and equality among the Kenya Maasai / Aud Talle -- Disability as incurable illness: health, process, and personhood in Southern Somalia / Bernhard Helander -- Why disabled? The cultural understanding of physical disability in an African society / Patrick Devlieger -- Being ill and being me: self, body, and time in multiple sclerosis narratives / Judith Monks and Ronald Frankenberg -- Encounters: the body silent in America / Robert Murphy -- Sighted lovers and blind husbands: experiences of blind women in Uganda / Nayinda Sentumbwe -- Public discourses on rehabilitation: from Norway to Botswana / Benedicte Ingstad -- Hero, beggar, or sports star: negotiating the identity of the disabled person in Nicaragua / Frank Jarle Bruun -- Disability and migration: a case story / Lisbeth Sachs -- Constructing epilepsy: images and contexts in East Africa / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- Mpho ya Modimo -- a gift from God: perspectives on "attitudes" toward disabled persons / Benedicte Ingstad -- Disability between discourse and experience / Susan Reynolds Whyte. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte. |
| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies. |
| Year: | c1995. |
| Publisher: | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 93038479; National Library: 052-00836; National Library: b95-54436; National Library: b95-U5071 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1568; Dewey No.: 305.9/0816 |
| OCLC No.: | 29309845 |
Abstract:
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.
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