THE BODY, POWER(LESSNESS), AND TEXT: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AUTOTHANATOGRAPHY OF ROBERT F. MURPHY
Keywords:
Robert Francis Murphy, American Cultural Anthropology, autothanatography, phenomenology of disability, disability as an identity, theory of rites of passage, social liminality, social constructionismAbstract
The subject of this essay is a textual and qualitative analysis of a single personal testimony and ethnographic account on the phenomenology of bodily disability, The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled by an American cultural anthropologist Robert F. Murphy. The interpretation of the text and the narrative structure of subjective experience is placed in the context of professional biography of the author, theoretical framework of his anthropological writing and style, as well as contemporary disability studies.
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