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Disability and Culture

Disability and Culture

Paperback

Health GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520083628
ISBN13: 9780520083622
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Feb 15 1995
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
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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