i forgot

about the body. in particular, I forgot about foucault's analysis of systems of punishment enacted on the body. Looking at an interview about his historical method, I notice that he informed himself in areas where I feel deficient. Really, the entire historical context of the time I'm examining. Poo.
Some notes:
- "analyzing an event according to the multiple processes that constitute it." (Power, 227.) Is criminal anthropology an event or process that surrounded a significant event? If carceralization of the penal system is an event, than perhaps the objectification of the criminal body is an event as well, or perhaps it was a process that was included carceralization. Perhaps it is both- an event in terms of science, a process in terms of carceralization. Carceralization allowed the subject of the criminal body to be effectively studied, and the environment of "scientizing" everything was the context in which amassing such data as Hooton did was embedded.
- "'eventalization' thus works by constructing around the singular event analyzed as process a 'polygon' or, rather, 'polyhedron' of intelligibility, the number of whose faces is not given in advance and can never be properly taken as finite." (Power, 227.) This is a comforting notion. My look at criminal anthropology has many faces: not simply the categorization of the criminal body in an effort to prevent and eliminate crime, but also processes of control of these and similar bodies- bodies that offend the senses of these 'sensible' scientists. The mad, feeble minded, poor and 'lazy' are included in this categorization. Sterilization, institutionalization and isolation were all tools to control these offensive populations. Prisons were both the impetus and a solution for folks like Hooton; isolation of some sort was part of Hooton's vision for criminals and ex-convicts.
Contexts to think about: Post civil war America- Jim Crow, minstrel, lynchings, etc.; WWI and WWII economies and concerns; extreme patriarchal environment; professionalization; scientization (is there a better word for this?); beginning of Cold War; the Depression; is there more?

RHB, if you read this, could you give me some input?