Disability and Culture
Disability and Culture
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This collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers a global, multicultural perspective on the subject. It explores the significance of mental, sensory and motor impairments in light of fundamental, culturally determined assumptions about humanity.
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Disability and Culture by Susan Whyte
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.
Benedicte Ingstad is professor emerita of medical anthropology at the University of Oslo.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780520083622 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520083628 |
| Titre | Disability and Culture |
| Auteur | Susan Whyte |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | University of California Press |
| Année de publication | 1995-02-15 |
| Nombre de pages | 320 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |