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title	:	Blind People : The Private and Public Life of Sightless Israelis SUNY Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies
author	:	Deshen, Shlomo A.
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0791410366
print isbn13	:	9780791410363
ebook isbn13	:	9780585091143
language	:	English
subject	Blind--Israel--Social conditions, Blind--Israel--Economic conditions, Blind--Israel--Family relationships.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	HV2078.5.D47 1992eb
ddc	:	362.4/1/095694
subject	:	Blind--Israel--Social conditions, Blind--Israel--Economic conditions, Blind--Israel--Family relationships.

Page i Blind People

Page ii SUNY Series, The Body in Culture, History, and Religion Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, Editor and SUNY Series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies Walter P. Zenner, Editor

Page iii Blind People The Private and Public Life of Sightless Israelis Shlomo Deshen STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Page iv Published by State University of New York Press, Albany 1992 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y. 12246 Production by Diane Ganeles Marketing by Theresa A. Swierzowski Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Deshen, Shlomo A. Blind people: the private and public life of sightless Israelis/ Shlomo Deshen. p. cm.(SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-7914-1035-8 (CH: acid free).ISBN 0-7914-1036-6 (PB: acid-free) 1.BlindIsraelSocial conditions. 2. BlindIsraelEconomic conditions. 3. BlindIsraelFamily relationships. I. Title. II. Series. HV2078.5.D47 1992 362.4'1'095694dc2O 91-20397 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v In honor of Suliman Hirbawy

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: The Field, the Questions and the Researcher 3 Part I: The Body 13 2.The Use of the Senses 15 3. The Use of Guide Dogs and Long Canes 25 Part II: The Domestic Circle 35 4. Coming of Age 37 5.Raising Sighted Children 49 Part III: Reaching for Material Needs 61 6. Seeking Employment 63 7. The Work Experience 73 8. The Experience of Support I: The Blindness System 85 9.The Experience of Support II: Living with the System 99 Part IV: Reaching for Fulfillment: Friendship, Dignity, Integration 113 10. The Dilemma of Association among Blind People 115 11. The Alternative of Ethnicity 129

Page viii 12.The Alternative of Citizenship 141 13.The Dilemma of Integration among the Sighted 153 14.Conclusion: From Etlmography of Blindness to Anthropology of Disability 167 Notes 175 References 187 Index 195

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have invested in this monograph the major part of my research efforts in recent years. During 198384 I spent a sabbatical year in fieldwork, and thereafter until the summer of 1990, I read and wrote. During these years the project meandered with me to the several departments of sociology and anthropology with which I have been affiliated, first at Bar-Ilan University and later at Tel-Aviv University, my permanent bases, and to New York University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Florida, where I held visiting positions. The fieldwork was supported by grants from the Tel-Aviv University Sapir Center for Development, and from the Jerusalem Center for Anthropological Research, directed by Dr. Edgar Siskin. I am very grateful for the confidence that the officers of these foundations gave me, in supporting a project that was far removed from the proposals that usually come before them. Even more than most ethnographic projects, this has been a solitary and often lonely one. I therefore deeply appreciate the pains that colleagues and friends in Israel and the United States have taken over the years, faithfully reading and commenting on drafts of papers that I inflicted upon them. I would like to single out the late Robert F. Murphy, the doyen of disability studies in anthropology, whose encouragement of the project has been of particular importance to me.

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