Disability and Culture
Author:   Benedicte Ingstad ,  Susan Reynolds Whyte
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520083622


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 February 1995
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   Benedicte Ingstad ,  Susan Reynolds Whyte
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520083622


ISBN 10:   0520083628
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 February 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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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

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

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