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Questions of competence : culture, classification and intellectual disability
- Title
- Questions of competence : culture, classification and intellectual disability / edited by Richard Jenkins.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jenkins, Richard, 1952-
- Description
- ix, 250 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This collection of essays examines the classification of people as competent & incompetent in the United States, England, Wales, Greece, Greenland, Uganda, & Belize. The contributors argue that it is time for a new understanding of intellectual disability.
- Subject
- People with mental disabilities > Cross-cultural studies
- Learning disabled > Cross-cultural studies
- Cross-cultural studies
- People with mental disabilities
- Intellectual Disability > ethnology
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Developmental Disabilities > ethnology
- Learning Disabilities > ethnology
- Mental Competency
- Persons with Mental Disabilities
- mentally handicapped
- 71.71 mentally handicapped
- Cross-cultural studies
- Learning disabled
- People with mental disabilities
- Geistige Behinderung
- Kulturvergleich
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Lernbehinderung
- Geestelijk gehandicapten
- Leermoeilijkheden
- Interculturele vergelijking
- Handicapés mentaux > Études transculturelles
- Déficiences intellectuelles > Etudes transculturelles
- Genre/Form
- Cross-cultural studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-245) and index.
- Contents
- Culture, classification, and (in)competence / Richard Jenkins -- Mental disability in the United States: an interactionist perspective / Michael V. Angrosing -- (In)competence in America in comparative perspective / Patrick J. Devlieger -- Risk, resilience, and competence: parents with learning difficulties and their children / Tim Booth and Wendy Booth -- Constructing other selves: (in)competences and the category of learning difficulties / Charlotte Aull Davies -- Work, opportunity, and culture: (in)competence in Greece and Wales / Sylvia van Mastricht -- Slow cookers and madmen: competence of heart and head in rural Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- States and categories: indigenous models of personhood in northwest Greenland / Mark Nuttall -- Learning to become (in)competent: children in Belize speak out / Nancy Lundgren -- Towards a social model of (in)competence / Richard Jenkins.
- ISBN
- 0521623030
- 9780521623032
- 0521626625
- 9780521626620
- LCCN
- 98003022
- OCLC
- ocm38504234
- 38504234
- SCSB-571413
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library