The Archaeology of Institutional Confinement Paperback / softback
by Eleanor Conlin Casella
Part of the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, illustrations
- Publisher:University Press of Florida
- Publication Date:30/09/2007
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- ISBN:9780813031392
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, illustrations
- Publisher:University Press of Florida
- Publication Date:30/09/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813031392
