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This Collection Of Essays Both Reframes Disability In Terms Of Social Processes And Offers A Global, Multicultural Perspective On The Subject. It Explores The Significance Of Mental, Sensory And Motor Impairments In Light Of Fundamental, Culturally Determined Assumptions About Humanity. Disability And Culture: An Overview / Susan Reynolds Whyte And Benedicte Ingstad -- Persons And Nonpersons: Disability And Personhood Among The Punan Bah Of Central Borneo / Ida Nicolaisen -- Child Is A Child: Disability And Equality Among The Kenya Maasai / Aud Talle -- Disability As Incurable Illness: Health, Process, And Personhood In Southern Somalia / Bernhard Helander -- Why Disabled? The Cultural Understanding Of Physical Disability In An African Society / Patrick Devlieger -- Being Ill And Being Me: Self, Body, And Time In Multiple Sclerosis Narratives / Judith Monks And Ronald Frankenberg -- Encounters: The Body Silent In America / Robert Murphy -- Sighted Lovers And Blind Husbands: Experiences Of Blind Women In Uganda / Nayinda Sentumbwe -- Public Discourses On Rehabilitation: From Norway To Botswana / Benedicte Ingstad -- Hero, Beggar, Or Sports Star: Negotiating The Identity Of The Disab

Author

Benedicte Ingstad; Susan Reynolds Whyte; University of California Press

Publisher

Los Angeles: University of California Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520083608

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences