Madness, disability, and social exclusion : the archaeology and anthropology of "difference" /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:	xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	One world archaeology 40
Subject:	Social isolation -- Cross-cultural studies. People with disabilities -- Cross-cultural studies. Mental illness -- Cross-cultural studies. Human remains (Archaeology) -- Cross-cultural studies. Ethnopsychology -- Cross-cultural studies. Difference (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies. Difference (Psychology) Ethnopsychology. Human remains (Archaeology) Mental illness. People with disabilities. Social isolation. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4381024

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Other authors / contributors:	Hubert, Jane.
ISBN:	0415230020 (hardcover)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of 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.

Madness, disability, and social exclusion : the archaeology and anthropology of "difference" /

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