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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ANANGU DISABILITY
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF ANANGU DISABILITY
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Xing-Hua Zhou, Jingdong Luo, Su Huang, Tae-Dong Kim, Zhengwei Shi, Yen-Ju Cheng, Sei-Hum Jang, Danie
2002
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The usual and common-sense definition of disability is based on a medical model that sees disability as a limitation or lack of competence on the part of the individual. This definition fails to acknowledge that in some cultures disability as a concept does not exist. This paper, based on research undertaken in 1994/1995, examines how the social construction of disability among the Anangu of the cross border region of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, takes into cons...
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