Electronic Resource
Palo Alto, Calif.
:
Annual Reviews
Annual Review of Anthropology
30 (2001), S. 65-83
ISSN:
0084-6570
Source:
Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff
Topics:
Ethnic Sciences
,
Biology
Notes:
Abstract The late twentieth century saw an intense expansion of the prison system in the United States during the same period in which Foucault's Discipline and Punish influenced academic approaches to power and subjection. This article reviews the history, sociology, and anthropology of the prison, as well as some recent popular critiques of the current situation. It highlights critical perspectives on modern forms of punishment and reform and suggests areas in which an anthropology of prisons might take up questions of modernity, subjection, classification, social suffering, and ethnographic possibility in the context of an increasingly politicized and racialized system of incarceration.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.65
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