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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824628403321

Titolo

Diagnosing folklore : perspectives on disability, health, and trauma / / edited by Trevor J. Blank and Andrea Kitta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4968-0429-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

362.4

Soggetti

Disabilities - Social aspects

People with disabilities - Social conditions

People with mental disabilities - Social conditions

Stigma (Social psychology)

Folklore - Social aspects

Sociology of disability

Disability studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Disability, ethnography, and the stigmatized vernacular -- Part 2. Folk knowledge, belief, and treatment in regional and ethnic health praxis -- Part 3. The performance of mental illness, stigma, and trauma.

Sommario/riassunto

"Diagnosing Folklore provides an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and communities beleaguered by medical stigmatization, conflicting public perceptions, and contextual constraints. This volume aims to showcase current ideas and debates, as well as promote the larger study of disability, health, and trauma within folkloristics, helping bridge the gaps between the folklore discipline and disability studies. This book consists of three sections, each dedicated to key issues in disability, health, and trauma. It explores the confluence of disability, ethnography, and the stigmatized vernacular through communicative



competence, esoteric and exoteric groups in the Special Olympics, and the role of family in stigmatized communities. Then, it considers knowledge, belief, and treatment in regional and ethnic communities with case studies from the Latino/a community in Los Angeles, Javanese Indonesia, and Middle America. Lastly, the volume looks to the performance of mental illness, stigma, and trauma through contemporary legends about mental illness, vlogs on bipolar disorder, medical fetishism, and veteran's stories"--