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An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin

An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin

Disability and Life-Making During Medical Incarceration

by Adria L. Imada
Hardback
Publication Date: 22/02/2022

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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.

ISBN:
9780520343849
9780520343849
Category:
Coping with illness & specific conditions
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
22-02-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of California Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
236x159x30mm
Weight:
0.57kg

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