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Title The archaeology of institutional life [electronic resource] / edited by April M. Beisaw and James G. Gibb.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

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Description xi, 249 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-241) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Social institutions -- History.
Social archaeology.
Archaeology and history.
Archaeology -- Social aspects.
Social history.
Public history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Beisaw, April M.
Gibb, James G.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 081731637X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817316372 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817355162 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817355166 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081738118X (electronic bk.)
9780817381189 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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