"Archaeology of the "Feebleminded
In the Archives with Lee Swearengin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Schweik (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Pages | 135-149 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/730406 |
| OpenAlex | W4400033091 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
In the 1930s, men institutionalized at the Glenwood Institution for the Feebleminded in Iowa conducted archaeological digs at Glenwood’s prehistoric earth mounds under the aegis of the Smithsonian and the Works Progress Administration, led in part by Glenwood inmate Lee Swearengin, whose luminous drawings of his life story and his findings are part of a disability history archive only recently unearthed. Swearengin’s archaeology both challenged and complied with, both undermined and undergirded, the white, male-centered, nondisabled norms that governed the keeping of Iowan archives of that place called Glenwood. What happens when we stay charged with the double-take produced by the thought of the feeble-minded researcher, and place it within its larger entanglements in settler colonialism and race science
Archaeology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Geology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |