ISBN:
9781441996664
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
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v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
One World Archaeology
DDC:
930.1
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Humanities
;
Archaeology
Abstract:
The large-scale internment of civilians and soldiers is one of the defining characteristics of social and military conflict in the modern world. These internment camps, often hastily constructed and just as hastily destroyed after a conflict, create a significant but brief mark on the archaeological record. Due to both their temporary nature and often sensitive political circumstances, internment camps present a unique archaeological challenge. This innovative work explores the specific methods and theoretical approaches involved in the archaeology of internment camps, and presents a rare exploration of previously unexplored and under-explored archaeological sites. The contributions to this work cover international cases including Cold War prisons of eastern Berlin, concentration camps at Auschwitz, Japanese American internment camps in World War II, as well as Northern Ireland, Lapland, The Isle of Man, Argentina, Spain, and Fort Hood, Texas. The diverse set of case studies are thematically linked, resulting in a coherent set of methodologies and approaches. The archaeology of internment is an emergent interest area that builds on well-defined, established, fields of study. In many cases archaeologists are beginning to explore the material remains using the full scope of archaeological methodology, as well as the historical and oral-historical sources that are the privilege of historical archaeologists. These interdisciplinary studies have the unique ability to connect traumatic memories and historical outrages to fragments of material remains. These processes have powerful political, social and affective implications, particularly in societies where amnesia is institutional or where only certain historical narratives are permitted. This archaeology of internment camps puts the people back into the picture, and in so doing, might even become an archaeology of liberation.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; 1 An Introduction to Archaeologies of Internment; The Experience of Internment; What is Internment?; What is the Current State of the Archaeology of Internment?; Disciplinary Contexts; What Can We Hope to Learn?; In This Book; Future Directions for the Archaeology of Internment; References; 2 Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and Labor Compounds in Late Nineteenth-Century South Africa; Introduction; The First Camps: The 1886 Closed Labor Compounds; The Precedent of Concentration Camps and Labor Camps in Southern Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
The Diamond Fields of South AfricaThe Birth of the Closed Compound on the Diamond Fields Circa 1886; From Barrack to Compound to Concentration Camp; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 3 A Tale of Two Treatments: The Materiality of Internment on the Isle of Man in World Wars I and II; Introduction; Disciplinary Context; The First World War; Douglas Camp; Knockaloe Camp; A Comparison of Douglas and Knockaloe; The Second World War; Conclusions; References; 4 The Archaeology of Internment in Francoist Spain ( 1936--1952 ); Introduction: The Rationale of Spanish Internment Camps
Description / Table of Contents:
From Camps to Prisons: The Institutional Typology of Franco's Internment CentersThe Material Culture of Totalitarianism; A Closer Look at the Camps: Ambiguous Domination/Ambiguous Resistance; Conclusion; References; 5 The Things of Auschwitz; Introduction; Ordinary Men; Deprivation and Abundance; The Primacy of Spoons; Informal Economy; The Ramp; The Kanadakommando; The Sonderkommando; Conclusion; References; 6 Gordon Hirabayashi, the Tucsonians, and the U.S. Constitution: Negotiating Reconciliation in a Landscape of Exile; Introduction: The Construction of the Catalina Highway
Description / Table of Contents:
The Permanent PrisonWhat the Prisoners Accomplished; A Million Visitors a Year; Wartime Hysteria and Racial Prejudice; Justice Delayed and the Site Rediscovered; The Other Resisters; The Road to Reconciliation; Conclusion; References; 7 Control or Repression: Contrasting a Prisoner of War Camp and a Work Camp from World War Two; Introduction; Imprisonment and Prisoners of War; Second World War PoW Camps in Britain; Prisoner of War Camp Design; Deaconsbank/Camp 660; Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit (NOFU); Structural Differences between Deaconsbank and Macoul; Fear, Control, and Repression
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionReferences; 8 Engraving and Embroidering Emotions Upon the Material Culture of Internment; Introduction; Recyclia and Internment Material Culture; Historical Background; Communal Living; Homesickness and Identity; Confinement by Barbed Wire; Pride, Defiance, and the V-Sign; Fighting Depression and Consuming Time; Sports and Theatre; Liberation and Repatriation; Conclusion; References; 9 Archaeological Investigations of Second World War Prisoner of War Camps at Fort Hood, Texas; Introduction; Archival Research; Physical Description of Camp Hood According to Archival Sources
Description / Table of Contents:
North Camp Hood Internment Camp
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4419-9666-4
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