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An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making During Medical Incarceration Volume 62

by Adria L. Imada
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780520343856
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
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  • Pages: 385
  • Original Price: USD 29.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 477 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

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.

Adria L. Imada is Professor of History at University of California, Irvine, and author of the award-winning Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire.

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