Prison Island (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando J Astudillo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Islands have been used by societies around the world to abandon, exile, or relocate people. In Latin America, an ambiguous sovereign status and the geographical remoteness of islands were used as the perfect place to create violent repressive institutions during the 19th and 20th centuries....