@article{springerlink:10.1007/s10761-012-0171-4, keywords = {Institutions, Landscape archaeology, , Hansen{\textquoteright}s disease, leprosy}, author = {Flexner J}, title = {An Institution that was a Village: Archaeology and Social Life in the Hansen{\textquoteright}s Disease Settlement at Kalawao, Moloka{\textquoteleft}i, Hawaii}, abstract = {Archaeological research in the Hansen{\textquoteright}s disease settlement at Kalawao, Moloka{\textquoteleft}i, Hawaii, has revealed evidence that challenges patterns expected from theoretical and archaeological research on total institutions. While written documents provide evidence for a community with many of the classic elements of places of social control, archaeological remains fit better with models of post-contact Hawaiian village life. This apparent contradiction is revealing for the power dynamics produced in the social life of modern leprosaria, medical institutions created in situations of long-term colonial entanglement.}, year = {2012}, journal = {International Journal of Historical Archaeology}, volume = {16}, pages = {135-63}, publisher = {Springer Netherlands}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {1092-7697}, doi = {10.1007/s10761-012-0171-4 }, note = {10.1007/s10761-012-0171-4}, language = {eng}, }