Past Programs
Anthropology and Sociology - 2004
Intellectual Disability: Communicating Across the Divide
07/02/2004
How are we to know the minds of the profoundly intellectually disabled? Jani Klotz grew up in a remarkable family, united in their difference and resilience. One of seven children, three of her oldest siblings were intellectually disabled. A lifetime of stares and whispers prompted Jani to embark on an extraordinary anthropological study of disability. Her journey took her deep into her family's own medical records and offers a powerful critique of the limitations of Western notions of reason, rationality and institutionalisation when it comes to the life of different minds.
