An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin : Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
American Crossroads
ISBN-10
0520343859
ISBN-13
9780520343856
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 2022
Print length
385 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
20.10 x 23.00 x 2.40 cms
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What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawai?i 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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