| Title | : | Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma |
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| ISBN | : | 1496804252 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781496804259 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 |
| Publication | : | First published October 12, 2015 |
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 veterans' stories.
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 veterans' stories.
Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma Reviews
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This was not what I was expecting, but it ended up being very interesting. It is a collection of academic papers that explore the relation between folklore and medicine as a way of being able to heal more effectively. Topics include autism on the island of Java, veterans telling their stories, and medical fetishism.
(My interest was because it was mentioned in an article about working against vaccine myths, but there wasn't really anything about that.)
Good food for thought. I might have given it four stars but it is very jargon-ish, and that can be off-putting. I guess it's nice knowing how to properly use esoteric, while learning exoteric, etic, and emic. -
It was just kinda ok.
