Enslavement and institutionalized care: the politics of health in nineteenth-century St Croix, Danish West Indies

Reifschneider, Meredith

doi:10.1080/00438243.2018.1459204

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“…Camp discusses the 'historical and biological situatedness of senses' and their politicization through a form of 'sensorial inequality' amongst the prisoner:non-prisoner population, whereby 'senses could be muted, made pungent (in the case of smells), denied to people as a subtle or overt strategy of war, social marginalization, and discrimination'. Both Reifschneider, and Longhurst describe colonial hospitals as places of state control and containment, with Reifschneider (2018) arguing that 'the struggle for power over the health of enslaved people was a site of contestation among the administration, planters and enslaved people themselves.' She examines the effects of centralized, state-administered healthcare of enslaved and colonized populations within the archaeological record of a nineteenth-century colonial plantation hospital in the Danish West Indies, interrogating how 'people negotiate power relationships between the body and the state.…”

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“…However, the prevalence of locally available materials suggest that local nurses drew on native medical plants and animal resources to treat their patients. Whilst compensating for a lack of professional care, Reifschneider (2018) suggests that this may also have been a form of active resistance to European medical practice (Sheridan 1985;Wilkie 1996) that encouraged 'adaptive and strategic models of care which fell outside the purview of colonial healthcare', highlighting further the need to move away from Western, clinical, frameworks of healthcare in order to better illuminate the varied way of healing represented in the archaeological record.…”

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New directions in the archaeology of medicine: deep-time approaches to human-animal-environmental care

Shaw¹,

Sykes²

2018

World Archaeology

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The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achievedthrough medicine, medical intervention and care-givingare fundamentals of human societies. However, within archaeological discourse, investigations of medicine and care have tended to examine the obvious and explicit manifestations of medical treatment as discrete practices that take place within specific settings, rather than as broader indicators of medical worldviews and health beliefs. In terms of human remains analysis, discussions have generally focused on the identification and diagnosis of palaeopathologies (e.g. Roberts and Manchester [2007]; Grauer [2012]) or unusual examples of surgical intervention (Mogle and Zias 1995;Bernardini et al. 2012;Becker 2014). Material studies have centred on medical implements (Baker 2004; Jackson 1997) with less attention given to investigating the less tangible pharmacopoeia.Matczakm and Chudziak (2018, this volume) provide an excellent summary of the key developments, approaches and sources concerning 'medical archaeology'. As is made clear, the research area is advancing fast, with a large number of high-quality publications being produced in recent years, including the British Archaeological Reports (BAR) Studies in Early Medicine Series that followed from a number of workshops and conferences from the late 1990s. In 2013 Baker published her important Archaeology of Medicine in the Greco-Roman World, and 2017 saw the publication of ground-breaking volumes on archaeological approaches to care (Powell, Southwell-Wright, and Gowland 2017;Tilley and Schrenk 2017). Nevertheless, the research area is still nascent, especially when compared with the intersecting discourse brought together within the Medical Humanities, including the History of Medicine and Medical Anthropology. Both of these fields are large, well-defined and well-funded, with their own research degrees and academic journals (notably Journal of Medical Humanities, Medical History, Medical Anthropology, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences). This volume sets out to make the case that there is potential for archaeology to develop its own subfield along similar lines, as our discipline has the ability to improve diachronic understanding of medicine and healthcare and to contribute to a range of emergent fields such as community and public health (Deprez and Thomas 2016), environmental and planetary health (

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Section: Medical Administration and The Body Politic: Medicine As Instrument Of Statementioning

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Section: Medical Administration and The Body Politic: Medicine As Instrument Of Statementioning

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New directions in the archaeology of medicine: deep-time approaches to human-animal-environmental care

Shaw¹,

Sykes²

2018

World Archaeology

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“…pulp, has laxative effects. Date pulp may have made this purgative sweeter and thus more palatable, which speaks to our understanding of a more compassionate approach to well-being facilitated by enslaved curers as a first line of routine medical care (Reifschneider 2018;Reifschneider and Bardolf 2020). Additionally, date pulp and castor oil have been historically important remedies used by women to induce labor.…”

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From Slavery to Servitude: Transformations and Continuities in Hacienda Labor, Well-Being, and Foodways in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nasca

Weaver,

Muñoz,

Durand

2023

Latin Am. antiq.

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The nineteenth century was a dynamic period for hacienda workers on the south coast of Peru. Former Jesuit vineyards with two of the largest enslaved African-descended populations in rural coastal Peru—the haciendas of San Joseph (San José) and San Francisco Xavier (San Javier)—and their annexes in Nasca's Ingenio Valley underwent dramatic transformations with the replacement of their grapevines with cotton and the introduction of new types of workers. Cantonese indentured workers were contracted beginning in the 1830s, and the majority-enslaved workforce was legally emancipated in 1854. Seasonally, highland Andean workers joined the demographically shifting permanent hacienda population. We use evidence from excavated midden contexts at San Joseph, San Xavier, and San Joseph's annex of Hacienda La Ventilla to explore these changing agroindustrial dynamics and worker well-being in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Despite the transformations at the estates, we find that culinary practices developed by enslaved Africans and their descendants during the Jesuit administration, such as the preparation of one-pot meals and stews, continued into the republican era among Cantonese indentured laborers and wage workers of Indigenous, mestizo, and Cantonese origins. We argue that such strategies centered on foodways were a crucial aspect of worker self-care regimes and broader well-being.

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“Views from Somewhere”: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Cholera Narratives

Warner-Smith

2020

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Enslavement and institutionalized care: the politics of health in nineteenth-century St Croix, Danish West Indies

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

New directions in the archaeology of medicine: deep-time approaches to human-animal-environmental care

New directions in the archaeology of medicine: deep-time approaches to human-animal-environmental care

From Slavery to Servitude: Transformations and Continuities in Hacienda Labor, Well-Being, and Foodways in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nasca

“Views from Somewhere”: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Cholera Narratives

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