The Deaths of Others
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Marisa Fuentes's work examines how death and mortality were governed and recorded under slavery, revealing how archives both reveal and conceal enslaved people's experiences.
She interrogates the production of knowledge about enslaved bodies and how power shaped what was documented.
Her methods include reading 'along the archival grain' to recover marginalized experiences within official records.
The book is influential for scholars concerned with mortality, medicine, and colonial bureaucratic practices.
Fuentes's analysis demonstrates how archival silences complicate but do not preclude historical recovery.
She interrogates the production of knowledge about enslaved bodies and how power shaped what was documented.
Her methods include reading 'along the archival grain' to recover marginalized experiences within official records.
The book is influential for scholars concerned with mortality, medicine, and colonial bureaucratic practices.
Fuentes's analysis demonstrates how archival silences complicate but do not preclude historical recovery.
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Katharine Gerbner
Katharine Gerbner, "Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2025)
