Dedication	6
	Contents	8
	Illustrations	9
	Series editors’ foreword	10
	Acknowledgements	12
	Abbreviations	13
	1 Athlete as anthropologist, anthropologist as athlete	14
	Part 1: Sport and disability	26
	2 A social history of sport for the disabled	28
	3 Paralympic ‘lived history’: Reflections of a participant observer	51
	4 The politics of sporting disablement	75
	5 Mediated Paralympic culture	95
	Part 2: Impairment, sport and performance	112
	6 The imperfect body and sport	114
	7 Technology and the Paralympic Games	133
	8 Accommodating Paralympic bodies	150
	Appendix: Through an anthropological lens	166
	Notes	178
	Bibliography	181
	Index	193