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.
However, in the face of less than strict selection processes in England, South Australians soon found themselves with a range of people who required assistance on arrival (Nance 1992: 30). South Australia consequently had to provide a ...
Aimed primarily at archaeologists looking to explore more complex narratives of change and continuity over time, this book will also appeal to scholars in sociology and science-technology-studies keen to embed their research in a richer ...
This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches.
This is the first book-length treatment of Neolithic burial in Britain to focus primarily on cave evidence.
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 ...
7–8. 49 Davison, Dunstan and McConville (eds), The Outcasts of Melbourne, pp. 7–8; p. 15; Andrew Brown-May, Melbourne Street Life: The Itinerary of Our Days (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press/Arcadia and Museum Victoria, 1998), pp.
Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work and the dynamic creative processes she participates in, this volume critically examines the importance of informal networks and conversation in the creation ...
Cambridge Borough Documents, Vol. I, ed. W. M. Palmer (Cambridg e: Bowes & Bowes, 1931), pp. 55–6. ... Records of the Borough of Nottingham, Vol. III: 1485–1547, ed. W. 114 H. Stevenson (London: Quaritch, 1885), pp. 150–4.
This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social archaeology.
At the same time she has to keep an eagle eye on her wayward son Rameses and his elegant and calculating cat and look into the mysterious disappearance of a mummy case.