Disability and CultureBenedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte University of California Press, 15.02.1995 - 307 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 35 |
Disability and Equality among the Kenya Maasai | 56 |
Health Process and Personhood | 73 |
in an African Society | 94 |
in Multiple Sclerosis Narratives | 107 |
vii | 127 |
Experiences of Blind Women in Uganda | 159 |
From Norway to Botswana | 174 |
Negotiating the Identity | 196 |
A Case Story | 210 |
Images and Contexts in East Africa | 226 |
Perspectives on Attitudes | 246 |
Disability between Discourse and Experience | 267 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 293 |
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