Archaeologies of internment / Adrian Myers, Gabriel Moshenska, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Myers, Adrian (Adrian T.)

Moshenska, Gabriel

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

One world archaeology (Springer (Firm))

One world archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Case studies.

Archaeology.

Archaeology and history.

Material culture.

Internment camps.

Prisoner-of-war camps.

Imprisonment--Social aspects.

Imprisonment.

War and society.

Nazi concentration camps.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xv, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Verlag, [2011]

Summary:

The internment of civilian and military prisoners became an increasingly common feature of conflicts in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Prison camps, though often hastily constructed and just as quickly destroyed, have left their marks in the archaeological record. Due to both their temporary nature and their often sensitive political contexts, places of internment present a unique challenge to archaeologists and heritage managers. As archaeologists have begun to explore the material remains of internment using a range of methods, these interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated the potential to connect individual memories and historical debates to the fragmentary material remains. Archaeologies of Internment brings together in one volume a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to this developing field. The contributions are geographically and temporally diverse, ranging from Second World War internment in Europe and the USA to prison islands of the Greek Civil War, South African labor camps, and the secret detention centers of the Argentinean Junta and the East German Stasi. These studies have powerful social, cultural, political, and emotive implications, particularly in societies in which historical narratives of oppression and genocide have themselves been suppressed. By repopulating the historical narratives with individuals and grounding them in the material remains, it is hoped that they might become, at least in some cases, archaeologies of liberation.-- Provided by Publisher.

Contents:

An introduction to archaeologies of internment

Exceptional space : concentration camps and labor compounds in late nineteeth-century South Africa

A tale of two treatments : the materiality of internment on the Isle of Man in World Wars I and II

The archaeology of internment in Francoist Spain (1936-1952)

The things of Auschwitz

Gordon Hirabayashi, the Tucsonians, and the U.S. Constitution : negotiating reconciliation in a landscape of exile

Control and repression : contrasting a prisoner of war camp and a work camp from World War Two

Engraving and embroidering emotions upon the material culture of internment

Archaeological investigatons of Second World War prisoner of war camps at Fort Hood, Texas

Forgotten in the wilderness : WWII German PoW camps in Finnish Lapland

Materialities and traumatic memories of a Twentieth-Century Greek exile island

The engineering of genocide : an archaeolgoy of dictatorship in Argentina

A political archaeology of Latin America's recent past : a bridge towards our history

Hohenschonhausen : visual and material representations of a cold war prison landscape

The last murals of Long Kesh : fragments of political imprisonment at the Maze prison, Northern Ireland

Lockdown : on the materiality of continement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781441996657

1441996656

9781441996664

1441996664

OCLC:

707970302

Publisher Number:

99944158023

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