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This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current
contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to
Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the
myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary
perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies to
interpreting fiction and travel writing written in the past and
present. The authors integrate insights from the reflexive
deconstructive turn in anthropology and from critical Marxist and
feminist approaches that ground interpretation in the political,
economic, and social constraints and experiences of everyday life.
The contributors share the view that fiction, like all artistic
expression, is rooted in specific historical and cultural contexts.
Literature, like all artistic expression, stimulates a critical
imagination by allowing readers to take a fresh look at their own
society and culture.
This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflects current
contributions to literary anthropology. It showcases the myriad
ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives,
theories, concepts and pedagogical strategies to interpreting
fiction and travel writing written in the past and present. The
authors integrate insights from the reflexive deconstructive turn
in anthropology and from critical Marxist and feminist approaches
that ground interpretation in the political, economic, and social
constraints and experiences of everyday life. The contributors
share the view that fiction, like all artistic expression, is
rooted in specific historical and cultural contexts. It therefore
provides a rich source of information about societies and time
periods in the present and about those that cannot be investigated
through traditional ethnographic methods. Literature, like all
artistic expression, stimulates a critical imagination by allowing
readers to take a fresh look at their own society and culture.
How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting
messages about their intelligence and academic potential,
particularly when labelled with social and learning disabilities?
How does disability become "disablement" when negative attitudes
and disparaging perceptions of ability position students as
outsiders? Following the lives of adolescents at home as well as in
and out of school, the author makes visible the disabling language,
contextual arrangements, and unconscious social practices that
restrict learning regardless of special education services. She
also showcases how young people resist disablement to transform
their worlds and pursue pathways most important to them. Educators
can use this important resource to recognise and change disabling
practices that are often taken for granted as a natural part of
schooling.
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