
Disability and Culture
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. February 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-520-08362-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08362-2 (9780520083622)
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Benedicte Ingstad | Susan Reynolds Whyte
Disability and Culture
E-Book
09/2020
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€30.99
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Persons
Benedicte Ingstad is Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Oslo. Susan Reynolds Whyte is Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Content
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