Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE IX
4. INTRODUCTION
5. 1. Disability and Culture: An Overview 1
6. PART I. DISABILITY, COSMOLOGY, AND PERSONHOOD
7. Introduction 35
8. 2. Persons and Nonpersons: Disability and Personhood among the Punan Bah of Central Borneo 38
9. 3. A Child Is a Child: Disability and Equality among the Kenya Maasai 56
10. 4. Disability as Incurable Illness: Health, Process, and Personhood in Southern Somalia 73
11. 5. Why Disabled? The Cultural Understanding of Physical Disability in an African Society 94
12. 6. Being Ill and Being Me: Self, Body, and Time in Multiple Sclerosis Narratives 107
13. PART II. SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF DISABILITY
14. Introduction 137
15. 7. Encounters: The Body Silent in America 140
16. 8. Sighted Lovers and Blind Husbands: Experiences of Blind Women in Uganda 159
17. 9. Public Discourses on Rehabilitation: From Norway to Botswana 174
18. 10. Hero, Beggar, or Sports Star: Negotiating the Identity of the Disabled Person in Nicaragua 196
19. 11. Disability and Migration: A Case Story 210
20. 12. Constructing Epilepsy: Images and Contexts in East Africa 226
21. 13. Mpho ya Modimo—A Gift from God: Perspectives on "Attitudes" toward Disabled Persons 246
22. EPILOGUE
23. 14. Disability between Discourse and Experience 267
24. CONTRIBUTORS 293
25. INDEX 295