- Includes bibliographical references and index. - 1. Disability and Culture: An Overview / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Benedicte Ingstad -- Pt. I. Disability, Cosmology, and Personhood. 2. Persons and Nonpersons: Disability and Personhood among the Punan Bah of Central Borneo / Ida Nicolaisen. 3. A Child Is a Child: Disability and Equality among the Kenya Maasai / Aud Talle. 4. Disability as Incurable Illness: Health, Process, and Personhood in Southern Somalia / Bernhard Helander. 5. Why Disabled? The Cultural Understanding of Physical Disability in an African Society / Patrick Devlieger. 6. Being Ill and Being Me: Self, Body, and Time in Multiple Sclerosis Narratives / Judith Monks and Ronald Frankenberg -- Pt. II. Social Contexts of Disability. 7. Encounters: The Body Silent in America / Robert Murphy. 8. Sighted Lovers and Blind Husbands: Experiences of Blind Women in Uganda / Nayinda Sentumbwe. 9. Public Discourses on Rehabilitation: From Norway to Botswana / Benedicte Ingstad. 10. Hero Beggar, or Sports Star: Negotiating the Identity of the Disabled Person in Nicaragua / Frank Jarle Bruun. 11. Disability and Migration: A Case Story / Lisbeth Sachs. 12. Constructing Epilepsy: Images and Contexts in East Africa / Susan Reynolds Whyte. 13. Mpho ya Modimo - A Gift from God: Perspectives on "Attitudes" toward Disabled Persons / Benedicte Ingstad. 14. Disability between Discourse and Experience / Susan Reynolds Whyte.
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