Finding Solace in the Soil

An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache

von Bonnie J. Clark

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining physical evidence with oral histories and archival data and enriched by the personal photographs and memories of former Amache incarcerees, the book describes how gardeners cultivated community in confinement.> The gardens were regarded by the incarcerees as a gift to themselves and to each other. And they were also, it turns out, a gift to the future as repositories of generational knowledge where a philosophical stance toward nature was made manifest through innovation and horticultural skill. Framing the gardens and gardeners of Amache within the larger context of the incarceration of Japanese Americans and of recent scholarship on displacement and confinement, Finding Solace in the Soil will be of interest to gardeners, historical archaeologists, landscape archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and scholars of Japanese American history and horticultural history.

• Reihe: University Press of Colorado
• ISBN: 9781646423378
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2022
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado