Shlomo Deshen 
Blind People [PDF ebook] 
The Private and Public Life of Sightless Israelis

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Blind 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.

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Field, the Questions and the Researcher

Part I: The Body

2. The Use of the Senses

3. The Use of Guide Dogs and Long Canes

Part II: The Domestic Circle

4. Coming of Age

5. Raising Sighted Children

Part III: Reaching for Material Needs

6. Seeking Employment

7. The Work Experience

8. The Experience of Support I: The Blindness System

9. The Experience of Support II: Living with the System

Part IV: Reaching for Fulfillment: Friendship, Dignity, Integration

10. The Dilemma of Association among Blind People

11. The Alternative of Ethnicity

12. The Alternative of Citizenship

13. The Dilemma of Integration among the Sighted

14. Conclusion: From Etlmography of Blindness to Anthropology of Disability

Notes

References

Index

Circa l’autore

Shlomo Deshen is Professor of Social Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University. A past president of the Israel Anthropological Association, he is the author of
The Mellah Society: Jewish Community Life in Sherifian Morocco.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 197 ● ISBN 9781438400907 ● Dimensione 16.3 MB ● Casa editrice State University of New York Press ● Pubblicato 2012 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7835835 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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