Madness, Disability and Social Exclusion : The Archaeology and Anthropology of 'Difference'

ISBN-13: 9780415230025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 272 str.

Jane Hubert; Jane Hubert

Opis

This study draws together a number of specialist disciplines, such as archaeology, history, anthropology, disability studies, mental health and psychiatry, to create a new perspective on social and physical exclusion from society. A range of evidence throws light on such themes as the causes and consequences of social exclusion stigma, marginality, dangerousness and ritual power of the other in society. In addition, the emotional and intellectual effects of social and/or physical exclusion on those who are subjected to it in contemporary society are discussed. The multiple contributions to this critical volume present a wide-ranging view of social exclusion and the mental and physical differences that can cause this exclusion. The case studies used range from investigations of skeletal remains, infanticide, leprosy, deafness, funerary rituals and mourning and originate from places as diverse as Iceland and Nigeria, Egypt and Siberia.

Spis treści

Introduction, Jane Hubert; Chapter 1 Official madness, Robert A. Brooks; Chapter 2 Hidden or overlooked? Where are the disadvantaged in the skeletal record?, Tony Waldron; Chapter 3 Did they take sugar? The use of skeletal evidence in the study of disability in past populations, Charlotte A. Roberts; Chapter 4 Developmental defects and disability, Eileen M. Murphy; Chapter 5 Two examples of disability in the Levant, Jonathan N. Tubb; Chapter 6 Disability, madness, and social exclusion in Dynastic Egypt, David Jeffreys, John Tait; Chapter 7 Skeletons in wells, John K. Papadopoulos; Chapter 8 Madness in the body politic, Sandra Blakely; Chapter 9 Impaired and inspired, Lois Bragg; Chapter 10 ‘Strange notions’, Ruth Gilbert; Chapter 11 The logic of killing disabled children, Patrick J. Devlieger; Chapter 12 Leprosy and social exclusion in Nepal, Jeanette Hyland; Chapter 13 Between two worlds, Kathryn Hollins; Chapter 14 The social, individual and moral consequences of physical exclusion in long-stay institutions, Jane Hubert; Chapter 15 Exclusion from funerary rituals and mourning, Oyepeju Raji, Sheila Hollins; Chapter 16 Social exclusion in northern Nigeria, Murray Last;

O autorze

Hubert, Jane