Document Type
Interview
Abstract
[Introduction]
In 2004 Lorna Rhodes published Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison as part of the University of California Press’s Public Anthropology series. This ethnographic manuscript – supplemented by a number of articles – took as its object of anthropological analysis the supermax prison system in Washington State. In so doing, Rhodes brought to the fore questions of power and agency as they are shaped by prison officials, prisoners, psychiatrists, and other stakeholders in the state-run prison system. In the following, Rhodes discusses her current research, American culture, and her views on academia and ethnography with Matthew Wolf-Meyer.
Repository Citation
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew, and Lorna Rhodes. ""Not Only a Consequence of Power, but Also One of its Strategies": An Interview with Lorna Rhodes." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 6, no. 2, 2006, pp. 1–6. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol6/iss2/8