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04 Sep 07
Culture as Disability
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Excellent anthropology- and ethnography-influenced analysis of the meaning of "disabledness" in learning communities.
- forestfortrees on 2007-09-04
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Common sense allows that persons unable to handle a difficult problem can be labeled "disabled." Social analysis shows that being labeled often invites a public response that multiplies the difficulties facing the seemingly unable. Cultural analysis shows that disability refers most precisely to inadequate performances only on tasks that are arbitrarily circumscribed from daily life. Disabilities are less the property of persons than they are moments in a cultural focus. Everyone in any culture is subject to being labeled and disabled.
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