Disability and Culture

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-08362-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingstad, Benedicte

Whyte, Susan Reynolds

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Benedicte Ingstad is Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Oslo. Susan Reynolds Whyte is Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.