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A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and TasmaniaConclusion: Archaeology and Lunatic Asylums

A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South... [Charles Cleland (2001: 2) argues that historical archaeology has become focussed too much on event based archaeology and not on wider cultural questions. This book has taken up this challenge and has sought, not just to explain the visible remains on the landscape - the buildings of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum and the New Norfolk Hospital for the Insane, but to understand both the forces at work within society shaping these buildings and what life was like within them for the unvoiced.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and TasmaniaConclusion: Archaeology and Lunatic Asylums

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Publisher
Springer New York
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© Springer-Verlag New York 2007
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978-0-387-73385-2
Pages
215 –223
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10.1007/978-0-387-73386-9_10
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[Charles Cleland (2001: 2) argues that historical archaeology has become focussed too much on event based archaeology and not on wider cultural questions. This book has taken up this challenge and has sought, not just to explain the visible remains on the landscape - the buildings of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum and the New Norfolk Hospital for the Insane, but to understand both the forces at work within society shaping these buildings and what life was like within them for the unvoiced.]

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: Material Culture; Historical Archaeology; Middle Range Theory; Moral Treatment; Lunatic Asylum

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