Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Blank, Trevor J.
• Kitta, Andrea, 1977-

Description

x, 240 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• 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
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
• HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues
• Disabled Persons > psychology
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Social Stigma
• Folklore
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Stereotyping
• Ethnology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Anatomy of Ethnography : Diagnosing Folkloristics and the Conceptualization of Disability / Andrea Kitta and Trevor J. Blank -- Disability, Narrative Normativity, and the Stigmatized Vernacular of Communicative (in)Competence / Amy Shuman -- Exploring Esoteric and Exoteric Definitions of Disability : Inclusion, Segregation, and Kinship in a Special Olympics Group / Olivia Caldeira -- Invoking the Relative : A New Perspective on Family Lore in Stigmatized Communities / Sheila Bock and Kate Parker Horigan -- Latina/o Local Knowledge about Diabetes : Emotional Triggers, Plant Treatments, and Food Symbolism / Michael Owen Jones -- Interpreting and Treating Autism in Javanese Indonesia : Listening to Folk Perspectives on Developmental Difference and Inclusion / Annie Tucker -- "Heal Thyself" : Holistic Women Healers in Middle America / Elaine J. Lawless -- Deranged Psychopaths and Victims Who Go Insane : Visibility and Invisibility in the Depiction of Mental Health and Illness in Contemporary Legend / Diane E. Goldstein -- Broadcasting the Stigmatized Self : Positioning Functions of YouTube Vlogs on Bipolar Disorder / Darcy Holtgrave -- Tales from the Operating Theater : Medical Fetishism and the Taboo Performative Power of Erotic Medical Play / London Brickley -- Falling Out of Performance : Pragmatic Breakdown in Veterans' Storytelling / Kristiana Willsey.

ISBN

• 9781496804259 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1496804252 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1496804260
• 9781496804266
• 9781496804266 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015015800

OCLC

908375198

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library