Ewolucja podejścia do niepełnosprawności w kulturze zachodu – perspektywa antropologii

Abstract

Anthropology is a field broadly understood as a description of ubiquitous human existence as far as homo sapiens emerged from community of human being until present-day society. Anthropology provides description of mechanics of integration of societies or how they distance themselves from certain group and individuals. It describes permanence and changes of culture order. According to Mary Douglas‘s anthropological resolving I analyse – in perspective of anthropology – evolution of social attitudes in to people with disabilities. Basical questions of my article are – „who, why, how, what” normal people thinks about persons wiht disfunctions. I present specific conceptualisation of disability’s causes, ways of a treatment people with features of otherness in traditinal era and in postmodernism. I say – they give us something inducing to thinking about another face of humanity.