Material Masculinities: Archaeology of a World War II Italian Prisoner of War Camp
Author(s): Jodi Barnes
Year: 2016
Summary
Camp Monticello, a World War II prisoner of war camp located in rural Arkansas, housed 3,000 Italian enlisted men, officers, and generals. As a military institution and a homosocial space, Camp Monticello provides a lens into the social construction of masculinity and the intersections of class, gender, and cultural difference in the 1940s. This paper will deconstruct heteronormative white maleness and explore the ways that gendered and cultural identities were both maintained and performed through materiality as the prisoners of war interacted with each other and camp personnel.
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Material Masculinities: Archaeology of a World War II Italian Prisoner of War Camp. Jodi Barnes. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434569)
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Keywords
General
Gender
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Masculinity
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Prisoner of War
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 639