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Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma

Trevor J. Blank and Andrea Kitta

Abstract

Diagnosing Folklore aspires to provide 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 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, and helping bridge the gaps between the folklore discipline and disability studies.

Keywords: Folklore, Health, Trauma, Disability, Medicine

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9781496804259
Published to University Press of Mississippi: May 2017 DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781496804259.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Trevor J. Blank, editor
State University of New York at Potsdam

Andrea Kitta, editor
East Carolina University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Anatomy of Ethnography: Diagnosing Folkloristics and the Conceptualization of Disability

Andrea Kitta and Trevor J. Blank

Part One Disability, Ethnography, and the Stigmatized Vernacular

Chapter One Disability, Narrative Normativity, and the Stigmatized Vernacular of Communicative (in)Competence

Amy Shuman

Chapter Two Exploring Esoteric and Exoteric Definitions of Disability: Inclusion, Segregation, and Kinship in a Special Olympics Group

Olivia Caldeira

Chapter Three Invoking The Relative: A New Perspective on Family Lore in Stigmatized Communities

Sheila Bock and Kate Parker Horigan

Part Two Folk Knowledge, Belief, and Treatment in Regional and Ethnic Health Praxis

Chapter Four Latina/o Local Knowledge about Diabetes: Emotional Triggers, Plant Treatments, and Food Symbolism

Michael Owen Jones

Chapter Five Interpreting and Treating Autism in Javanese Indonesia: Listening to Folk Perspectives on Developmental Difference and Inclusion

Annie Tucker

Chapter Six “Heal Thyself”: Holistic Women Healers in Middle America

Elaine J. Lawless

Part Three The Performance of Mental Illness, Stigma, and Trauma

Chapter Seven Deranged Psychopaths and Victims Who Go Insane: Visibility and Invisibility in the Depiction of Mental Health and Illness in Contemporary Legend

Diane E. Goldstein

Chapter Eight Broadcasting the Stigmatized Self: Positioning Functions of YouTube Vlogs on Bipolar Disorder1

Darcy Holtgrave

Chapter Nine Tales from the Operating Theater: Medical Fetishism and the Taboo Performative Power of Erotic Medical Play

London Brickley

Chapter Ten Falling Out of Performance: Pragmatic Breakdown in Veterans’ Storytelling

Kristiana Willsey

End Matter

Contributors

Index