Aspects of identity in the experience of physical disabilities: a social-anthropological view/Aspectos da identidade na experiencia da deficiencia fisica: um olhar socioantropologico/Aspectos de identidad en la experiencia de deficiencia fisica: un enfoque socio-antropologico

This article analyzed the experience of physical disability by focusing on individuals' identity, which was discussed through the categories "being and feeling deficient" and "stigma", guided by self-concept as a sociocultural construction that is updated daily and entered i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Interface (Botucatu, Brazil) Brazil), 2011-01, Vol.15 (36), p.109
Hauptverfasser: Ma, Barsaglini, Reni Aparecida
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Zusammenfassung:This article analyzed the experience of physical disability by focusing on individuals' identity, which was discussed through the categories "being and feeling deficient" and "stigma", guided by self-concept as a sociocultural construction that is updated daily and entered into a singular trajectory. This was a qualitative study of social-anthropological nature based on phenomenology. Eight men and five women with acquired physical deficiency were interviewed using a semi-structured interview plan, and the data were subjected to thematic analysis. Being and feeling deficient involved an ambiguity in relation to the reductionist concept that guides the system legitimizing this condition, which is faced with a more comprehensive meaning expressed in everyday performance. Identity was reaffirmed as a self-concept (re) constructed in subjective and intersubjective interactions, without detachment from a historically, culturally and socially contextualized biography. Keywords: Physical disability. Anthropology and health. Stigma. Experience of illness. O artigo analisa a experiencia da deficiencia fisica enfocando a identidade das pessoas, discutindo-a pelas categorias "ser e sentir-se deficiente" e "estigma", balizadas pelo autoconceito como construcao sociocultural, atualizadas cotidianamente e inscritas em uma trajetoria singular. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa de cunho socioantropologico fundamentada na fenomenologia. Foram entrevistados oito homens e cinco mulheres com deficiencia fisica adquirida, guiando-se por roteiro semiestruturado, cujos dados foram submetidos a analise tematica. Ser e sentir-se deficiente comporta uma ambiguidade diante do conceito reducionista que orienta o sistema legitimador dessa condicao, confrontado com um significado mais englobante expresso no desempenho cotidiano. Reafirma-se a identidade como autoconceito (re)construido nas interacoes subjetivas e intersubjetivas, nao descolada de uma biografia historica, cultural e socialmente contextualizada. Palavras-chave: Deficiencia fisica. Antropologia e saude. Estigma. Experiencia da enfermidade. El articulo analiza la experiencia de la deficiencia fisica enfocando la identidad de las personas discutiendola por las categorias "ser y sentirse deficiente" y "estigma", orientadas por el auto-concepto construccion socio-cultural, actualizadas cotidianamente e inscritas en una trayectoria singular. Se trata de investigacion cualitativa socio-antropologica fundamentada en la fenomenolo
ISSN:1414-3283