An archive of skin, an archive of kin : disability and life-making during medical incarceration / Adria L. Imada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Imada, Adria L. (Adria Lyn), author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

American crossroads ; 62.

American crossroads ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leprosy--Patients--Social conditions.

Leprosy.

Leprosy--Hawaii--History.

History.

Hawaii.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

"What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history and how did people survive it? Beginning in 1866, men, women, and children in Hawai'i 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, a competing knowledge system of kinship and collectivity emerged during this incarceration. An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin shows how exiled people pieced together their own intimate archives of care and companionship through unanticipated adaptations of photography"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Imada, Adria L. Archive of skin, an archive of kin

ISBN:

9780520343849

0520343840

9780520343856

0520343859

OCLC:

1245656047

Publisher Number:

99989674818