An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin
Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2022
385 pages
978-0-520-97520-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
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Adria L. Imada
An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin
Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
Book
02/2022
1st Edition
University of California Press
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Shipment within 10-20 days
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Adria L. Imada is Professor of History at University of California, Irvine, and author of the award-winning Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire.
Content
Contents
Preface: Encountering the Photographs
Note on Language
Chronology of Significant Events
Map of Hawaiian Islands
Introduction: An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin
1 • Ocular Experiments and Unruly Technologies of the Body
2 • A Criminal Archive of Skin
3 • Dressing the Body: Laundry and the Intimacy of Care
4 • Dreaming in Pictures: Queer Kinship and Subaltern
Family Albums
Epilogue: Healing Encounters at the Settlement
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface: Encountering the Photographs
Note on Language
Chronology of Significant Events
Map of Hawaiian Islands
Introduction: An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin
1 • Ocular Experiments and Unruly Technologies of the Body
2 • A Criminal Archive of Skin
3 • Dressing the Body: Laundry and the Intimacy of Care
4 • Dreaming in Pictures: Queer Kinship and Subaltern
Family Albums
Epilogue: Healing Encounters at the Settlement
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
