The archaeology of military prisons from the American Civil War

Globalization, Resistance and Masculinity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3919972
AutoresRyan K Mcnutt (0000-0002-4409-4550, Georgia Southern University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume51
Fascículo5
Páginas689-708
Data de publicação2019-10-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2020.1739553
OpenAlexW3013013629
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas34

Archaeologies of internment present unique challenges and benefits. Myriad aspects of human behaviour that stretch over temporal scales of generations and centuries at other archaeological sites are visible in ephemeral traces of short-term occupation at sites of internment such as prisoner of war (POW)camps; resistance, domination, the structure and scaffolds of authority, agency and identity are created, cast, and discarded into the soil. The paper examines some of these stories from the earth through military prisons of the American Civil War, and the ephemeral archaeology of selected case studies: Camp Lawton, Andersonville, and Johnson’s Island. Themes explored are globalization and the intersection of the global at the local in prison camps, resistance, its forms, and function within POW camps; and how resistance intersecting with systems of structural violence within internment camps spurred the development of a masculinity in the 19th century during, and after the American Civil War, different from societal norms

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Ethnology · Globalization · Masculinity · Political science · Prison · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · American History and Culture · Gender Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law