Prisoners of War: Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment

336 Pages·2012·9.31 MB·English

by  Harold Mytum

Prisoners of War
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Prisoners of War

Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of

19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment
Editors
Harold Mytum Gilly Carr
Centre for Manx Studies Archaeology Institute of Continuing Education
Classics and Egyptology Univesity of Cambridge
School of Histories, Languages Cambridge, UK
and Cultures
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK
ISSN 1574-0439
ISBN 978-1-4614-4165-6 ISBN 978-1-4614-4166-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-4166-3
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Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Prisoner of War Archaeology ................................................................. 3
Harold Mytum and Gilly Carr
Part II Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Experiences
2 Artifacts of Internment: Archaeology and Interpretation
at Two American Civil War Prisoner-of-War Sites ............................. 23
John H. Jameson
3 Life and Death at the Florence Stockade, American
Civil War, Prisoner of War Camp, South Carolina ............................. 41
Paul G. Avery and Patrick H. Garrow
4 Johnson’s Island US Civil War Military Prison ................................... 59
David R. Bush
5 Norman Cross: Designing and Operating
an Eighteenth-Century British Prisoner of War Camp....................... 75
Harold Mytum and Naomi Hall
Part III Twentieth-Century Britain and Europe:
Military Prisoners of War
6 Excavating the World War II Prisoner of War Camp
at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, Normandy ................................................. 95
Robert Early
7 American, British, and French PoW Camps
in Normandy, France (1944–1948). Which Role
for Archaeology in the Memorial Process? ........................................... 117
Valentin Schneider
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8 Stalag Luft III: The Archaeology
of an Escaper’s Camp ............................................................................. 129
Peter Doyle, Jamie Pringle, and Lawrence E. Babits
9 Reinforced Concrete, Steel and Slaves:
Archaeological Studies of Prisoners of World War II
in Norway—The Case of Romsdal Peninsula ....................................... 145
Marek E. Jasinski
Part IV Twentieth-Century Britain and Europe:
Civilian Prisoners of War
10 Materiality Matters: The Role of Things in Coping
Strategies at Cunningham’s Camp, Douglas
During World War I................................................................................ 169
Harold Mytum
11 “My Home Was the Area Around My Bed”:
Experiencing and Negotiating Space in Civilian
Internment Camps in Germany, 1942–1945 ......................................... 189
Gilly Carr
12 A Tale of Two Towns: Heritage and Memory
of Civilian Internment in Baden-Württemberg,
Germany, 1942–2012 ............................................................................... 205
Gisela Rothenhäusler and Reinhold Adler
13 Writing and Experiencing Internment:
Rethinking Paul Jacobsthal’s Internment
Report in the Light of New Discoveries ................................................ 223
Katharina Ulmschneider and Sally Crawford
Part V Twentieth-Century Japanese-American
Civilian North America
14 “Life in Manzanar Where There Is
a Spring Breeze”: Graffiti at a World War II Japanese
American Internment Camp .................................................................. 239
Jeffery F. Burton and Mary M. Farrell
15 Japanese-Style Ornamental Community Gardens
at Manzanar Relocation Center............................................................. 271
Ronald J. Beckwith
16 An Archaeological and Ethnographic Examination
of the Acquisition, Presence, and Consumption
of Saké at Camp Amache, a World War II Japanese
Internment Camp .................................................................................... 285
Michelle A. Slaughter
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17 Perseverance and Prejudice: Maintaining
Community in Amache, Colorado’s World War II
Japanese Internment Camp ................................................................... 303
Dana Ogo Shew and April Elizabeth Kamp-Whittaker
Part VI Postcript
18 Prisoner of War Archaeology in an
Interdisciplinary Context ....................................................................... 321
Harold Mytum
Index ................................................................................................................. 333

Contributors
Reinhold Adler Local historian, retired Secondary School teacher, Ummendorf ,
Germany
Paul G. Avery Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. , Knoxville , TN , USA
Lawrence E. Babits East Carolina University , Greenville , NC , USA
Ronald J. Beckwith Saguaro National Park , U.S. National Park Service , Tucson ,
AZ , USA
Jeffery F. Burton Cultural Resources Program Manager, Manzanar National
Historic Site , Independence , CA , USA
David R. Bush Center for Historic and Military Archaeology , Heidelberg
University , Tif fi n , OH , USA
Gilly Carr Institute of Continuing Education , University of Cambridge ,
Cambridge , UK
Sally Crawford Institute of Archaeology , University of Oxford, Oxford , UK
Peter Doyle Department of Earth Sciences , University College London ,
London , UK
Robert Early Oxford Archaeology , Oxford , UK
Mary M. Farrell Department of Anthropology , University of Hawai‘i—West
O’ahu , Pearl City , HI , USA
Patrick H. Garrow Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. , Knoxville , TN , USA
Naomi Hall Wessex Archaeology , Salisbury , UK
John H. Jameson NB Southeast Archeological Center , U.S. National Park Service ,
Waterford Glen Court, Tallahassee , FL , USA
Marek E. Jasinski Norwegian University of Science and Technology ,
Trondheim , Norway
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April Elizabeth Kamp-Whittaker Independent researcher, Cedar Rapids ,
IA , USA
Harold Mytum Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology , School of Histories,
Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool , Liverpool , UK
Jamie Pringle Engineering and Environmental Geoscience , School of Physical
Sciences and Geography, Keele University , Keele , UK
Gisela Rothenhäusler Local historian teaching at Salvatorkolleg, Bad Wurzach ,
Germany
Valentin Schneider Université de Caen Basse-Normandie , Caen , France
Dana Ogo Shew Anthropological Studies Center , Sonoma State University ,
CA , USA
Michelle A. Slaughter Avalon Archaeology , Denver , CO , USA
Katharina Ulmschneider Institute of Archaeology , University of Oxford ,
Oxford , UK