Questions of competence : culture, classification and intellectual disability / edited by Richard Jenkins.
| Other author | Jenkins, Richard, 1952- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
| Description | ix, 250 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Culture, classification, and (in)competence / Richard Jenkins -- Mental disability in the United States: an interactionist perspective / Michael V. Angrosino -- (In)competence in America in comparative perspective / Patrick J. Devlieger -- Risk, resilience, and competence: parents with learning difficulties and their children / Tim Booth and Wendy Booth -- Constructing other selves: (in)competences and the category of learning difficulties / Charlotte Aull Davies -- Work, opportunity, and culture: (in)competence in Greece and Wales / Sylvia van Maastricht -- Slow cookers and madmen: competence of heart and head in rural Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- States and categories: indigenous models of personhood in northwest Greenland / Mark Nuttall -- Learning to become (in)competent: children in Belize speak out / Nancy Lundgren -- Towards a social model of (in)competence / Richard Jenkins. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-245) and index. |
| LCCN | 98003022 |
| ISBN | 0521623030 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521626625 (pbk.) |