Exploring Wellbeing at Great Lakes Lighthouses

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Archaeological inquiry into health is typically centered on ableism, which views healthiness and non-(dis)abled as the norm. To see beyond these normative perspectives, I propose a view of (dis)ease and (dis)ability as “wellbeing”. Wellbeing should be conceived as a complex assemblage that includes a focus on lived experience and an intersectional view of social and personal identities. In this paper I use archaeological and archival evidence from several lighthouses in the Great Lakes region of the United States to propose ways to apply the concept of wellbeing.

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• Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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