| Description |
x, 307 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 disabled person in Nicaragua / Frank Jarle Bruun -- Disability and migration: a case story / Lisbeth Sachs -- Constructing epilepsy: images and contexts in East Africa / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- Mpho ya Modimo -- a gift from God: perspectives on "attitudes" toward disabled persons / Benedicte Ingstad -- Disability between discourse and experience / Susan Reynolds Whyte. |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Indexed Term |
Handicapped persons |
| Added Author |
Ingstad, Benedicte.
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Whyte, Susan Reynolds.
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| ISBN |
0520083601 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520083628 paper alkaline paper |
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