An Archaeology Of Lunacy

Author : Katherine Fennelly
Publisher : Social Archaeology and Materia
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1526126494

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An Archaeology of Lunacy by Katherine Fennelly Pdf

An archaeology of lunacy is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland, which took place during the late-Georgian and early Victorian period. Examining architecture and material culture, the book proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier. It looks at the planning and construction of the first public asylums and assesses the extent to which popular ideas about reformed management practices for the insane were applied at ground level. Crucially, it moves beyond doctors and reformers, repopulating the asylum with the myriad characters that made up its everyday existence: keepers, clerks and patients. Contributing to archaeological scholarship on institutions of confinement, the book is aimed at academics, students and general readers interested in the material environment of the historic lunatic asylum.

Author : Catherine J. Frieman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526132648

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An Archaeology of Innovation by Catherine J. Frieman Pdf

An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology can offer. Case studies span the entire breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The book argues that the present narrow focus on pushing the adoption of technical innovations ignores the complex interplay of social, technological and environmental systems that underlies truly innovative societies; the inherent connections between new technologies, technologists and social structure that give them meaning and make them valuable; and the significance and value of conservative social practices that lead to the frequent rejection of innovations.

Author : Julia Roberts,Kathleen Sheppard,Ulf R. Hansson,Jonathan R. Trigg
Publisher : Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 1526134551

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Communities and Knowledge Production in Archaeology by Julia Roberts,Kathleen Sheppard,Ulf R. Hansson,Jonathan R. Trigg Pdf

This volume investigates the collaborative effort in the creation of knowledge in antiquarianism and archaeology. In eleven case studies ranging from early modern antiquarianism to modern archaeology, various aspects of interaction and dialogue within scholarly communities in Europe and North America are critically examined.

Author : Duncan Sayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 1526135574

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Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries by Duncan Sayer Pdf

Author : Susan Piddock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387733869

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A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania by Susan Piddock Pdf

Employing the considerable archaeological and historical skills in her armory, Susan Piddock tries to lift the lid on the lunatic asylums of years gone by. Films and television programs have portrayed them as places of horror where the patients are restrained and left to listen to the cries of their fellow inmates in despair. But what was the world of nineteenth century lunatic asylums really like? Are these images true, or are we laboring under a misunderstanding?

Author : April Kamp-Whittaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031375781

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Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting by April Kamp-Whittaker Pdf

Author : Charlotte Newman,Katherine Fennelly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805391104

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Poverty Archaeology by Charlotte Newman,Katherine Fennelly Pdf

The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare, though they maintain a notorious historical reputation. Workhouses were intended to be specialized institutions, with dedicated subdivisions for the management of different categories of inmate. Examining the workhouse provision from an archaeological perspective, the authors demonstrate the heterogeneity of the Poor Law system from a built heritage perspective. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century.

Author : Ing-Marie Back Danielsson,Andrew Meirion Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526142863

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Images in the making by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson,Andrew Meirion Jones Pdf

This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeological image analysis, it argues for the importance of ontology, redefining images as material processes or events that draw together differing aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: ‘Emergent images’, which focuses on practices of making; ‘Images as process’, which examines the making and role of images in prehistoric societies; and ‘Unfolding images’, which focuses on how images change as they are made and circulated. Featuring contributions from archaeologists, Egyptologists, anthropologists and artists, it highlights the multiple role of images in prehistoric and historic societies, while demonstrating that scholars need to recognise their dynamic and changeable character.

Author : Rick Peterson
Publisher : Social Archaeology and Materia
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1526118866

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Neolithic Cave Burials by Rick Peterson Pdf

This book provides the first synthetic overview of Neolithic cave burial and demonstrates its importance in understanding the period. It makes a substantial contribution to debates about collective burial in the Neolithic, adding data which is currently little known and not easily accessible to the discussion.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105

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Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Pdf

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Author : William Ll. Parry-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135031411

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The Trade in Lunacy by William Ll. Parry-Jones Pdf

First published in 2006. A private madhouse can be defined as a privately owned establishment for the reception and care of insane persons, conducted as a business proposition for the personal profit of the proprietor or proprietors. The history of such establishments in England and Wales can be traced for a period of over three and a half centuries, from the early seventeenth century up to the present day. This volume is a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : Katharine Greider
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586489908

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The Archaeology of Home by Katharine Greider Pdf

When Katharine Greider was told to leave her house or risk it falling down on top of her and her family, it spurred an investigation that began with contractors' diagnoses and lawsuits, then veered into archaeology and urban history, before settling into the saltwater grasses of the marsh that fatefully once sat beneath the site of Number 239 East 7th Street. During the journey, Greider examines how people balance the need for permanence with the urge to migrate, and how the home is the resting place for ancestral ghosts. The land on which Number 239 was built has a history as long as America's own. It provisioned the earliest European settlers who needed fodder for their cattle; it became a spoil of war handed from the king's servant to the revolutionary victor; it was at the heart of nineteenth-century Kleinedeutschland and of the revolutionary Jewish Lower East Side. America's immigrant waves have all passed through 7th Street. In one small house is written the history of a young country and the much longer story of humankind and the places they came to call home.

Author : Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030892739

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The Working Class at Home, 1790–1940 by Joseph Harley,Vicky Holmes,Laika Nevalainen Pdf

This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space. The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new understanding of working-class homes.

Author : Gordon Barclay,Ron Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Coast defenses
ISBN : 190833214X

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The Fortification of the Firth of Forth 1880-1977 by Gordon Barclay,Ron Morris Pdf

The Fortification of the Firth of Forth' describes the story of the great Forth Fortress from 1880 to 1977, when the final traditional defensive capabilities were abandoned. The authors combine archival sources with new fieldwork and oral histories to not only describe what was built, but when and why. They also show how the defences were expected to be used, in rapidly changing strategic circumstances and in the face of increasingly sophisticated and powerful naval weapons. Increasingly complex defences were built between the Isle of May and the Forth Rail Bridge to detect, block and sink enemy warships and submarines. The threat of an expansionist Germany across the North Sea increased the importance of the Forth as the site of the northern naval dockyard. The defences reached their zenith in 1916-17 as preparations were made for the Grand Fleet to move from its northern anchorage at Scapa Flow. The estuary was re-armed in 1939, and the coast defences were wound up in 1956 before being finally abandoned in 1977. Today, many of the surviving features remain visible in and around the Firth of Forth. This meticulously researched, richly illustrated volume relates the defences in the Forth to the wider political and military context and also describes the human side of the defences: the men and women who manned the fortress. This is a fascinating resource for those interested in Scottish military and naval history, and conflict and battlefield archaeology.

Author : Melanie Giles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526150172

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Bog bodies by Melanie Giles Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.