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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Holy dwarves" and "devil babies": An anthropological world-survey of stigmatization of the disabled
Abstract
dc:description.abstractDisability exists as a human universal based upon conceptual categorizations. Positive and negative forms of stigmatization exist cross-culturally, and are examined in a world-survey format in terms of emic socio-cultural level, subsistence economy, and religion. I suggest that responses to disability are cultural specific, and that these individualized responses are filtered through cultural perceptions of reality and transformed into various treatment strategies of care, euthanasia, and abandonment, in addition to common discriminatory customs, such as limitations on marriage eligibility.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Anthropology and Ethnic Studies
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Year
- 2001
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- White, Tommi Louise
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- W. Jankowiak
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1265
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2264