Finding solace in the soil : an archaeology of gardens and gardeners at Amache / Bonnie J. Clark.
Material type: TextPublisher: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2020]Description: xvi, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 1646420926
- 9781646420926
- Granada Relocation Center
- Garden archaeology -- Colorado -- Amache
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Colorado -- Amache
- Ethnoarchaeology -- Colorado -- Amache
- Japanese Americans -- Colorado -- Amache -- Antiquities
- Japanese Americans -- Colorado -- Amache -- History
- Japanese Americans -- Colorado -- Amache -- Social life and customs
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- SB469.75 .C535 2020
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB468.5.J2 C52 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800182255 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Studying Amache's gardens: methodology and practice -- Japanese gardens and diaspora -- A prison on the prairie -- Transforming the landscape -- Making connections -- Tradition and innovation -- Placemaking in confinement.
"Tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining physical evidence with oral histories, archival data, personal photographs, and memories of former Amache incarcerees, the book describes how gardeners cultivated community in confinement"