The archaeology of institutional life /

Institutions pervade social life. They express community goals and values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior. Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and power to enforce the orthodoxy of their time. But institutions are also arenas in which both orthodoxies...

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Other Authors: Beisaw, April M., Gibb, James G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Historical overview of the archaeology of institutional life / Sherene Baugher
  • On the enigma of incarceration: philosophical approaches to confinement in the modern era / Eleanor Conlin Casella
  • Feminist theory and the historical archaeology of institutions / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
  • Constructing institution-specific site formation models / April M. Beisaw
  • Rural education and community social relations: historical archaeology of the Wea View Schoolhouse No. 8, Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana / Deborah L. Rotman
  • Individual struggles and institutional goals: small voices from the Phoenix Indian School track site / Owen Lindauer
  • The orphanage at Schulyer Mansion / Lois M. Feister
  • A feminist approach to European ideologies of poverty and the institutionalization of the poor in Falmouth, Massachusetts / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
  • Ideology, idealism, and reality: investigating the Ephrata Commune / Stephen G. Warfel
  • Maintaining or mixing southern culture in a northern prison: Johnson's Island Military Prison / David R. Bush
  • Written on the walls: inmate graffiti within places of confinement / Eleanor Conlin Casella
  • John Canolly's "ideal" asylum and provisions for the insane in nineteenth century South Australia and Tasmania / Susan Piddock
  • The future of the archaeology of institutions / Lu Ann De Cunzo.