The Weimar Joint Sanatorium: Memory, Movement, and Access
Author(s): Alyssa R Scott
Year: 2018
Summary
The towns of Colfax and Weimar in Placer County, California, were once the location of seven different tuberculosis sanatoriums, both privately-operated and government-operated. The Weimar Joint Sanatorium had patients from fifteen counties in California, and operated in collaboration with six nearby, privately owned sanatoriums. During the Vietnam War, the buildings and landscape housed Vietnamese refugees, and today it is used is a religious health institute. This paper explores memory and practice through archaeological material and landscapes, and questions how ideas about health and people are communicated through material culture and space. The Weimar Joint Sanatorium site functioned both as a liminal space and a third space, in which people negotiated, transformed, or reinforced identities. Institutions can be places of control, but also spaces where marginalized groups affirm and shape embodied experiences of care.
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The Weimar Joint Sanatorium: Memory, Movement, and Access. Alyssa R Scott. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441135)
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Keywords
General
Health
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Identity
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Memory
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): 756