Disability anthropology is a cross-section of anthropological studies that takes sociocultural approaches to interdisciplinary disability studies. The main subdisciplines of anthropology active in disability anthropology studies are medical anthropology and cultural anthropology.[1][2]
The field of disability anthropology focuses on understanding the sociocultural problems of disability and uses research to develop and assess approaches to solving problems or helping to bring about change for disabled people and communities.[3] The topic of disability within anthropology persuades researchers to use a cultural lens and ethnological approach to identify unfamiliarity and "otherness" among cultures.[2]
History
editThe contribution of anthropology to disability studies is still relatively new.[1][4]
Important scholars who consider the relationship between anthropology and disability include Devva Kasnitz and Russell Shuttleworth,[2] Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp,[5] Cassandra Hartblay,[6] and Erin L. Durban.[7]
There is a distinction between "anthropology of disability" and "disability anthropology" in that the latter is intimately connected to interdisciplinary critical disability studies and crip theory. Both these fields include extensive research done around the world.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Reid-Cunningham, Allison Ruby (2009). "Anthropological Theories of Disability". Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 19 (1): 99–111. doi:10.1080/10911350802631644. S2CID 145624426.
- ^ a b c Kasnitz, Devva; Shuttleworth, Russell P. (2001). "Anthropology in disability studies". Disability Studies Quarterly. 21 (3): 2–17. doi:10.18061/dsq.v21i3.289.
- ^ LeCompte, Margaret Diane. The Ethnographer's Toolkit. Vol. 1 - Designing & conducting ethnographic research : an introduction (Second ed.). Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press. ISBN 978-0759118690.
- ^ Devlieger, Clara (14 June 2018). "Disability". In Stein, Felix (ed.). Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology. doi:10.29164/18disab. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ Ginsburg, Faye; Rapp, Rayna (2020). "Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human: An Introduction to Supplement 21". Current Anthropology. 61 (S21): S4–S15. doi:10.1086/705503. ISSN 0011-3204.
- ^ Hartblay, Cassandra (2020). "Disability Expertise: Claiming Disability Anthropology". Current Anthropology. 61 (S21): S26–S36. doi:10.1086/705781. ISSN 0011-3204.
- ^ Durban, Erin L. (2022). "Anthropology and Ableism". American Anthropologist. 124 (1): 8–20. doi:10.1111/aman.13659. ISSN 0002-7294.
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