Material Engagement and the Incarceration Experience at Amache

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Biennially field school students, researchers, and community members assemble at the Granada Relocation Center (Amache) for a five week field season culminating in a two day community open house. This diverse group surveys, excavates, and discusses the historical events surrounding the incarceration of Japanese Americans at Amache. Data from a recent survey is used to explore how community members experience the act of attending the field school or community open house. In participant responses we can see how visiting the site and interacting with the material remains of internment impacts different groups of individuals and contributes to their understandings of personal history or broader United States history. The data reflects the diversity of experiences in the Japanese American community and generational differences which can aid in effort to preserve and interpret these sites in the future.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology