The Disabled Anthropologist
$126.95
- Paperback
228 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2025
Summary
The Disabled Anthropologist: Rethinking Ethnography Through Embodied Experience
This book shines a crucial spotlight on disabled anthropologists, firmly establishing that “disabled” and “anthropologist” are not mutually exclusive. The disabled anthropologists featured in this volume challenge erasure from a profession often resistant to their critiques and innovative approaches.
Through autoethnography, photography, and poetry, contributors examine the shortcomings of anthro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032760278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032760273 |
| Author: | Sumi Colligan, Anna Jaysane-Darr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 228 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Sumi Colligan
Sumi Colligan is a Professor Emerita from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and her PhD from Princeton. She was among the first disabled anthropologists to address the experience of being a disabled ethnographer. She has served on the Board of the Society for Disability Studies and published in the Anthropology of Work Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, and the International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies.
Anna Jaysane-Darr is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her research foci include neurodiversity in educational and clinical spaces in South Africa, and reproduction and nationalism among refugees. Her work has been published in Children and Society, Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies, and in the edited volume Refugee Resettlement in the United States: Loss, Transition, and Resilience in a Post-9⁄11 World, among other venues.
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