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    An archive of skin, an archive of kin : disability and life-making during medical incarceration / Adria L. Imada.
    by Imada, Adria L. (Adria Lyn), author.
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    Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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  • Leprosy -- Patients -- Social conditions.
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  • Leprosy -- Hawaii -- History.
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    9780520343856 (paperback) :
    0520343859
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    American crossroads ; 62.
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    xiii, 330 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 23 cm.
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    Preface : encountering the photographs -- Note on language -- Chronology of significant events -- Map of Hawaiian Islands-- Introduction : an archive of skin, an archive of kin -- Ocular experiments and unruly technologies of the body -- A criminal archive of skin -- Dressing the body : Laundry and the intimacy of care -- Dreaming in pictures : Queer kinship and subaltern family albums -- Epilogue : healing encounters at the settlement.
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    "What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history and how did people survive it? Beginning in 1866, men, women, and children in Hawai'i 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, a competing knowledge system of kinship and collectivity emerged during this incarceration. An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin shows how exiled people pieced together their own intimate archives of care and companionship through unanticipated adaptations of photography"--
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