Format:
1 online resource (412 pages)
ISBN:
9780520975200
Series Statement:
American Crossroads Ser. v.62
Content:
What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawaiʻi beginning in 1866, men, women, and children suspected of having leprosy were removed from their families. Most were sentenced over the next century to lifelong exile at an isolated settlement. Thousands of photographs taken of their skin provided forceful, if conflicting, evidence of disease and disability for colonial health agents. And yet among these exiled people, a competing knowledge system of kinship and collectivity emerged during their incarceration. This book shows how they pieced together their own intimate archives of care and companionship through unanticipated adaptations of photography.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520343849
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Imada, Adria Lyn An archive of skin, an archive of kin Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2022 ISBN 9780520343849
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520343856
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Hawaii
;
Geschichte 1866-2015
;
Leprosorium
