| Description |
xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
One world archaeology ; 40 |
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One world archaeology ; 40
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| Contents |
Introduction: the complexity of boundedness and exclusion / Jane Hubert -- 1. Official madness: a cross-cultural study of involuntary civil confinement based on 'mental illness' / Robert A. Brooks -- 2. Hidden or overlooked? Where are the disadvantaged in the skeletal record? / Tony Waldron -- 3. Did they take sugar? The use of skeletal evidence in the study of disability in past populations / Charlotte A. Roberts -- 4. Developmental defects and disability: the evidence from the Iron Age semi-nomadic peoples of Aymyrlyg, south Siberia / Eileen M. Murphy -- 5. Two examples of disability in the Levant / Jonathan N. Tubb -- 6. Disability, madness, and social exclusion in Dynastic Egypt / David Jeffreys and John Tait -- 7. Skeletons in wells: towards an archaeology of social exclusion in the ancient Greek world / John K. Papadopoulos -- 8. Madness in the body politic: Kouretes, Korybantes, and the politics of shamanism / Sandra Blakely -- 9. Impaired and inspired: the makings of a medieval Icelandic poet / Lois Bragg -- 10. 'Strange notions': treatments of early modern hermaphrodites / Ruth Gilbert -- 11. The logic of killing disabled children: infanticide, Songye cosmology, and the colonizer / Patrick J. Devlieger -- 12. Leprosy and social exclusion in Nepal: the continuing conflict between medical and socio-cultural beliefs and practices / Jeanette Hyland -- 13. Between two worlds: the social implications of cochlear implantation for children born deaf / Kathryn Hollins -- 14. The social, individual and moral consequences of physical exclusion in long-stay institutions / Jane Hubert -- 15. Exclusion from funerary rituals and mourning: implications for social and individual identity / Oyepeju Raji and Sheila Hollins -- 16. Social exclusion in northern Nigeria / Murray Last |
| Summary |
"Bringing together a number of specialist disciplines, such as archaeology, history, anthropology, disability studies, mental health and psychiatry, this work provides a new perspective on social and physical exclusion from society. A range of evidence throws light on the causes and consequences of social exclusion, stigma, marginality, dangerousness and ritual power of the 'other' in society. Also discussed are the emotional and intellectual effects of social and/or physical exclusion on those who are subjected to it in contemporary society." "This is a study that breaks down traditional academic disciplinary boundaries by adopting a comparative perspective and time dimension. This will be an essential reference for archaeologists and anthropologists alike as they seek to understand social exclusion in the past and the present. It will also be extremely useful to those who work with people classified as mentally ill or disabled in today's society."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social isolation -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Mental illness -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Ethnopsychology -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Difference (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Hubert, Jane.
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| LC no. |
2000056029 |
| ISBN |
0415230020 : |
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