Abstract

WEID, Olivia von der. Enabling bodies and individuals: practical knowledge of life with blindness. Etnográfica [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.3, pp.499-520. ISSN 0873-6561.

The reflections elaborated here have the intention to follow practices in which people, bodies, senses, objects, books, environment, devices and strategies are incorporated, developed or trained to live with blindness, based on everyday life. They are a result of an ethnographic study that intended to go along with the practical knowledge developed by professionals and patients in a rehabilitation center, but also by blind people in their daily life practices. With the lack or loss of vision, other senses and the whole body arise as mechanisms to apprehend the world, the environment, the people. The intention is to approach the perception of the world of blind people from the relationships they establish through their bodies. With an emphasis on practices, we seek to approach how these bodies interact with the environment and what kind of experience, skills, techniques and knowledge of the world is produced in this process.

Keywords : blindness; rehabilitation; practices; body; materials.

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