Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Anatomy of Ethnography: Diagnosing Folkloristics and the Conceptualization of Disability -- Part One: Disability, Ethnography, and the Stigmatized Vernacular -- Chapter One: Disability, Narrative Normativity, and the Stigmatized Vernacular of Communicative (in)Competence -- Chapter Two: Exploring Esoteric and Exoteric Definitions of Disability: Inclusion, Segregation, and Kinship in a Special Olympics Group -- Chapter Three: Invoking the Relative: A New Perspective on Family Lore in Stigmatized Communities -- Part Two: Folk Knowledge, Belief, and Treatment in Regional and Ethnic Health Praxis -- Chapter Four: Latina/o Local Knowledge about Diabetes: Emotional Triggers, Plant Treatments, and Food Symbolism -- Chapter Five: Interpreting and Treating Autism in Javanese Indonesia: Listening to Folk Perspectives on Developmental Difference and Inclusion -- Chapter Six: "Heal Thyself": Holistic Women Healers in Middle America -- Part Three: The Performance of Mental Illness, Stigma, and Trauma -- Chapter Seven: Deranged Psychopaths and Victims Who Go Insane: Visibility and Invisibility in the Depiction of Mental Health and Illness in Contemporary Legend -- Chapter Eight: Broadcasting the Stigmatized Self: Positioning Functions of YouTube Vlogs on Bipolar Disorder -- Chapter Nine: Tales from the Operating Theater: Medical Fetishism and the Taboo Performative Power of Erotic Medical Play -- Chapter Ten: Falling Out of Performance: Pragmatic Breakdown in Veterans' Storytelling -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.