01155nas a2200193 4500000000100000008004100001260003600042653001700078653002600095653000500121653002300126653001200149100001400161245013500175300001100310490000700321520061900328022001400947 2012 d bSpringer NetherlandsaDordrecht10aInstitutions10aLandscape archaeology10a10aHansen’s disease10aleprosy1 aFlexner J00aAn Institution that was a Village: Archaeology and Social Life in the Hansen’s Disease Settlement at Kalawao, Moloka‘i, Hawaii a135-630 v163 aArchaeological research in the Hansen’s disease settlement at Kalawao, Moloka‘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. a1092-7697