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

Author
Imada, Adria L. (Adria Lyn) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
  • ©2022
Description
xiii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Preface : encountering the photographs
    • Chronology of significant events
    • Introduction : an archive of skin, an archive of kin
    • Ocular experiments and unruly technologies of the body
    • A criminal archive of skin
    • Dressing the body : Laundry and the intimacy of care
    • Dreaming in pictures : Queer kinship and subaltern family albums
    • Epilogue : healing encounters at the settlement.
    ISBN
    • 9780520343849 ((hardcover))
    • 0520343840 ((hardcover))
    • 9780520343856 ((paperback))
    • 0520343859 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2021038202
    OCLC
    1245656047
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