Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936

ISBN-13: 9781032018270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir; James G. Rice

Opis

Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively.

Spis treści

Foreword.  Introduction.  1. Disability in Medieval Iceland: Some Methodological Concerns.  2. Beneath the Surface: Disability in Archaeological and Osteobiographical Contexts.  3. One Story, One Person: The Importance of Micro/Bio Research for Disability Studies.  4. The Peculiar Attitude of the People – The Life and Social Conditions of One "Feebleminded" Girl in the Early 20th century.  5. From a Life with a Different Body to a Recreated Folklore of Accentuated Difference: Sigríður Benediksdóttir vs. Stutta-Sigga.  6. Dis-/abling Absence: Absencepresence as Matters that Matter.  7. Health, Healing, and the Social Body in Medieval Iceland.  8. Physical Impairment and The Spatial Dimensions of Everyday Life in Rural Households in Pre-Industrial Iceland.  9. Guðmundur Bergþórsson as Creator and Creation: A Folk Narrative Study of a 17th Century Disabled Poet.  10. Fictive Osteobiographical Narrative – The Missing Puzzle Pieces.  Afterword.