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AbstractThe World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans was a traumatic event that had lasting repercussions on multiple communities. Archaeologists have sought to productively pursue community‐based methodologies in studying this period, employing object‐based oral histories, outreach events, and community participation in fieldwork. However, less scholarly attention has looked to the ways in which materials have become central to understanding and mobilizing around the incarceration camp history. Acts of pilgrimage, memorialization, scholarly study, and activism constitute key arenas through which this heritage is participated with, each interacting with materials in different ways. This article discusses three cases of material engagements, from the politics of object ownership to origami activism and their importance in reckoning with this violent past. Materials in these cases are not passive objects but rather spur actions and create new publics. Furthermore, the physical qualities of materials shape both the ways in which they are engaged and the politics that surround their rhetorical deployment.

This book examines the Japanese diaspora from the historical archaeology perspective-drawing from archaeological data, archival research, and often oral history-and explores current trends in archaeological scholarship while also looking at new methodological and theoretical directions. The chapters include research on pre-War rural labor camps or villages in the US, as well as research on western Canada (British Columbia), Peru, and the Pacific Islands (Hawai'i and Tinian), incorporating work on understudied urban and cemetery sites. One of the main themes explored in the book is patterns of cultural persistence and change, whether couched in terms of maintenance of tradition, "Americanization," or the formation of dual identities. Other themes emerging from these chapters include consumption, agency, stylistic analysis, community lifecycles, social networks, diaspora and transnationalism, gender, and sexuality. Also included are discussions of trauma, racialization, displacement, labor, heritage, and community engagement. Some are presented as fully formed interpretive frameworks with substantial supporting data, while others are works in progress or tentative attempts to push the boundaries of our field into innovative new territory. This book is of interest to students and researchers in historical archaeology, anthropology, sociology of migration, diaspora studies and historiography. Previously published in International Journal of Historical Archaeology Volume 25, issue 3, September 2021

Intro -- Contents -- Critical Mass: Charting a Course for Japanese Diaspora Archaeology -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The expansion of the Japanese Diaspora -- Approaches to Japanese Diaspora History -- In This Volume -- References Cited -- A History of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Archaeology of the Pre-War Era -- 1960s-80s -- 1990-2005 -- 2005-20 -- Archaeology of the WWII Era -- 1970s to 90s -- 2000-14 -- 2015-20 -- Archaeology-Adjacent Research -- Research Trends and Future Directions -- References -- Archaeological Examination of Japanese Photographs and Archival Data from the Pre-WWII Okinawan Diaspora: Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Okinawan Diaspora to the Northern Mariana Islands -- Historical Context: Administration of the Nanyō Islands by Japan -- Life in the Marianas -- Residences and Everyday Life -- Okinawan Emigration Elsewhere before and after WWII -- The Tinian Plantation and Refinery -- The Archaeology of the Sugar Plantation in Tinian Today -- Okinawan Farmsteads -- Okinawan Gardens -- Okinawan Refuges and Military Defenses -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Jizo (Ksitigarbha) Statues under Palm Trees: The Materialization of Early Japanese Immigrant Culture in Hawai'i -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Graves and Cemeteries -- Epitaphs -- Stone Statues and Funerary Statuary -- Religious Stone Statues -- Funerary Statuaries -- Conclusions -- References -- Introduction of Lifecycle of Community Framework: Grappling with Multiple, Complex Datasets in Interpreting Yama/Nagaya, a Late Nineteenth- to Early Twentieth-Century Pacific Northwest Japanese Immigrant Village -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Historical Background of Yama/„Nagaya -- Methodology -- Lifecycle Stages: Yama/Nagaya Data -- Pre-emergence -- Inception -- Growth -- Maturity.