Disability and Culture by Ingstad, Benedicte

Disability and Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520083622)

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Disability and Culture by Ingstad, Benedicte

Disability and Culture

$31.95
Disability and Culture by Ingstad, Benedicte

Disability and Culture

$31.95
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.

Author: Benedicte Ingstad
ISBN-10: 0520083628
ISBN-13: 9780520083622
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/1995
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.03w x 0.88d
By Benedicte Ingstad
By Benedicte Ingstad
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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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