Disability & Culture - Hardcover

Ingstad, Benedicte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520083601 ISBN 13: 9780520083608

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 collection of essays both reframes disability in terms of social processes and offers 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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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520083601
• ISBN 13: 9780520083608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318