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Title: The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled by Robert F. Murphy ISBN: 0-393-32042-1 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hearing the Body
Comment: Bob became paraplegiac at a late age, after having enjoyed a long, brilliant career as a professor at Columbia and an anthropologist who, with his anthropologist wife Yolanda, lived among Amazonian Indians and Saharan camel nomads. He was too clever to be overwhelmed with self-pity. This book was written from the perspective that he loved most: what you'd think is true is probably just the opposite. We expect paralyzed people to get better, like other "sick" patients, but the problem is, they don't: they're damaged selves. Hey--just like everybody else. We all have to come to terms with life's damages and our isolation and loneliness as we attempt to cope with it. Who would ever have thought it possible--we can all learn something compelling about our normal selves, viewing life from the wheelchair! Ironically (and this is the kind of twist that styles Murphy's ideas) the disabled are a mirror for the rest of us: "The paralytic is, quite literally, a prisoner of the flesh, but most humans are convicts of sorts. We live within walls of our own making, staring out at life through bars thrown up by culture and annealed by our fears. . . .[that] induces a mental paralysis, a stilling of thought." Murphy has never sold his soul to an illusion: he speaks candidly as a participant observer of his own encounter with symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and transformation. Always the fox, he transcends the smoke screen that our cultural prejudices force upon us, and hears his own body and its message with astounding clarity and patience. This is a book that students read eagerly, in both anthropology and sociology classes, because its message is provocative, and its ethnography is true. It teaches us all to listen to the sound of our own struggles with personal identity and mortality, and to smile with the knowledge that we are not alone.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disibility means reliance on others
Comment: Ten years ago since the American Disabilities Act went into effect, the disabled still feel that they are isolated from the real world. Former professor of anthropology at Columbia University Robert F. Murphy examines from his personal perspective the life of a disabled person in a world where he was independent and zealous of life. The reader will discover what it is like for a disabled person to battle besides the inability to carry out everyday function we take for granted. The Body Silent is unlike other books written by the disable. The Body Silent is an excellent book full of prose and not journal entries of how fortunate the non-disabled really are. This book (recommended to me by anthropologist Dr. James Trostle) will change your perspective and outlook on how it is like to grow up again and learning how to walk, one step at a time.
Rating: 5
Summary: a celebration of life worth living
Comment: As a graduate student in anthropology, I came to know and respect Bob Murphy more than any other scholar. Of the texts he wrote, The Body Silent, stands apart in that it says much about the man, anthropology, disability in American society, and life itself. It will deeply touch a wide variety of readers, and for those that knew him, will bring tears to their eyes. As to its impact on what is now known as disability studies, it put the discipline on the academic agenda. As such, it is a seminal text and is a must for anyone thinking of entering the field.
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Title: Virtually Virgins: Sexual Strategies and Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil by Jessica L. Gregg ISBN: 0804747563 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Teach Yourself Genetics by Morton Jenkins ISBN: 0844215643 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back by Guillermo Gomez-Pena ISBN: 0415182379 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Right You Are If You Think You Are by Luigi Pirandello, Stanley Appelbaum ISBN: 0486295761 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugene Ionesco ISBN: 0802130984 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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