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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONAL CONFINEMENT
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| By: |
Eleanor Conlin Casella, Michael S. Nassaney |
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Paperback |
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£24.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813031397 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813031392 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2007 |
| Series: |
American Experience in Archaeological Perspective |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
States that the study of American institutional confinement, its presumed successes, failures, and controversies, is incomplete without examining the remnants of relevant sites no longer standing. Asking what archaeological perspectives add to the understanding of such a topic, this book identifies three distinct categories of confinement. |
| Synopsis: |
The study of American institutional confinement, its presumed successes, failures, and controversies, is incomplete without examining the remnants of relevant sites no longer standing. Asking what archaeological perspectives add to the understanding of such a provocative topic, Eleanor Conlin Casella describes multiple sites and identifies three distinct categories of confinement: places for punishment, for asylum, and for exile. Her discussion encompasses the multifunctional shelters of the colonial era, Civil War prison camps, Japanese-American relocation centers, and the maximum-security detention facilities of the twenty-first century. Her analysis of the material world of confinement takes into account architecture and landscape, food, medicinal resources, clothing, recreation, human remains, and personal goods. Casella exposes the diversity of power relations that structure many of America's confinement institutions. Weaving together themes of punishment, involuntary labor, personal dignity, and social identity, "The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement" tells a profound story of endurance in one slice of society.It will illuminate and change contemporary notions of gender, race, class, infirmity, deviance, and antisocial behavior. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
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University Press of Florida |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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