The archaeology of institutional life / edited by April M. Beisaw and James G. Gibb.

Historical overview of the archaeology of institutional life / Sherene Baugher -- On the enigma of incarceration: philosophical approaches to confinement in the modern era / Eleanor Conlin Casella -- Feminist theory and the historical archaeology of institutions / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- Constructing institution-specific site formation models / April M. Beisaw -- Rural education and community social relations: historical archaeology of the Wea View Schoolhouse No. 8, Wabash Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana / Deborah L. Rotman -- Individual struggles and institutional goals: small voices from the Phoenix Indian School track site / Owen Lindauer -- The orphanage at Schulyer Mansion / Lois M. Feister -- A feminist approach to European ideologies of poverty and the institutionalization of the poor in Falmouth, Massachusetts / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- Ideology, idealism, and reality: investigating the Ephrata Commune / Stephen G. Warfel -- Maintaining or mixing southern culture in a northern prison: Johnson's Island Military Prison / David R. Bush -- Written on the walls: inmate graffiti within places of confinement / Eleanor Conlin Casella -- John Canolly's "ideal" asylum and provisions for the insane in nineteenth century South Australia and Tasmania / Susan Piddock -- The future of the archaeology of institutions / Lu Ann De Cunzo.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-241) and index.