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Disability and Culture
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1995
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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.
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PREFACE
IX - INTRODUCTION
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1. Disability and Culture: An Overview
1 - PART I. DISABILITY, COSMOLOGY, AND PERSONHOOD
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2. Persons and Nonpersons: Disability and Personhood among the Punan Bah of Central Borneo
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3. A Child Is a Child: Disability and Equality among the Kenya Maasai
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4. Disability as Incurable Illness: Health, Process, and Personhood in Southern Somalia
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5. Why Disabled? The Cultural Understanding of Physical Disability in an African Society
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6. Being Ill and Being Me: Self, Body, and Time in Multiple Sclerosis Narratives
107 - PART II. SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF DISABILITY
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7. Encounters: The Body Silent in America
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8. Sighted Lovers and Blind Husbands: Experiences of Blind Women in Uganda
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9. Public Discourses on Rehabilitation: From Norway to Botswana
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10. Hero, Beggar, or Sports Star: Negotiating the Identity of the Disabled Person in Nicaragua
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11. Disability and Migration: A Case Story
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12. Constructing Epilepsy: Images and Contexts in East Africa
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13. Mpho ya Modimo—A Gift from God: Perspectives on "Attitudes" toward Disabled Persons
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14. Disability between Discourse and Experience
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CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
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Keywords for this book
age; anthropology; community; culture; immigrants; migrants; nation; social processes; sociology
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