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Zoanni, Tyler:
The Possibilities of Failure : Personhood and Cognitive Disability in Urban Uganda.
In: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology.
Bd. 36
(2018)
Heft 1
.
- S. 61-79.
ISSN 2047-7716
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/cja.2018.360105
Abstract
This article offers a person-centred analysis that closely attends to lives shaped by cognitive disability in Uganda. It reflects on the most widely used Ugandan term for disability, obulemu, which literally means ‘state of failure’. Ugandans with cognitive disabilities are often perceived as failed people (abalemu) insofar as they depart from dominant scripts for being human. Yet departures are also beginnings, and I attempt to think failure otherwise. Rather than understand these supposed failures in negative terms – as loss and diminishment of collective and personal possibilities – I focus on the possibilities of failure, tracing what arises around ‘failed people’ in terms of therapeutics, care and personhood. The article intervenes in a wider anthropological conversation about personhood. Rather than privileging cultural concepts of the person or the successful social realization of personhood, as much of that conversation does, the article takes inspiration from Meyer Fortes and makes ‘failures’ of personhood central.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Keywords: | Africa; care; Christianity; Meyer Fortes; therapeutics; voice |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Professur Ethnologie Afrikas |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie |
| Eingestellt am: | 06 Jun 2019 06:56 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 16 Feb 2022 14:12 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/49243 |