An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
Author:   Adria L. Imada
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   62
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9780520343856


Pages:   385
Publication Date:   01 February 2022
Format:   Paperback
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An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration


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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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Author:   Adria L. Imada
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   62
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520343856


ISBN 10:   0520343859
Pages:   385
Publication Date:   01 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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. 

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