{"product_id":"blind-people-shlomo-deshen-9780791410363","title":"Blind People: The Private and Public Life of Sightless Israelis","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlind People approaches disability from a fresh perspective: people with an unusual body are conceived of relativistically as a variant of humanity, much the way anthropology approaches people of different culture. While deeply empathic to its subject matter, Blind People raises questions that anthropologists ask routinely, but which are commonly avoided in everyday life because they touch on sensitive matters. Based on fieldwork in Israel, the book constitutes an ethnography of blind Israelis. It starts by focusing on intimate issues of the management of the sightless body, goes on to discuss the role of the blind person in the domestic setting, and moves to issues of how the blind person strives to attain material requirements. Finally, the book relates the way blind people cope with problems of associating with both blind and sighted people in arenas of leisure activity and public affairs. Deshen's book aims to present a truthful, dignified, fully human depiction, in the tradition of socio-cultural anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shlomo Deshen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791410366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791410363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs","brand":"Shlomo Deshen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065123385599,"sku":"9780791410363","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0007088a-932e-4cf4-93f9-d1e2134030a9.jpg?v=1768673144","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blind-people-shlomo-deshen-9780791410363","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}