Forum: thoughts and future directions. by Louann Wurst -- Violence in archaeology and the violence of archaeology / by Reinhard Bernbeck -- Discursive violence and archaeological ruptures: archaeologies of colonialism and narrative privilege in highland Guatemala / by Guido Pezzarossi -- Spanish colonialism and spatial violence / by Kathryn E. Sampeck -- "An incurable evil" : direct and structural violence in the mercury mines of colonial Huancavelica (AD 1564-1824) / by Douglas K. Smit and Terren K. Proctor -- The violence of "a more sensitive class of persons" : privilege, landscape, and class struggle in northeast Pennsylvania / by Michael P. Roller -- Sifting through multiple layers of violence : the archaeology of gardens of a WWII Japanese American incarceration camp / by Koji Lau-Ozawa -- Race and the water : swimming, sewers, and structural violence in African America / by Paul R. Mullins, Kyle Huskins, and Susan B. Hyatt -- Binocular vision : making the carceral metropolis in northern New Jersey / by Christopher N. Matthews -- Commentary: the violence of violence? / by Louann Wurst -- Forum: thoughts and future directions.
Summary:
Violence is rampant in today's society. From state-sanctioned violence and the brutality of war and genocide to interpersonal fighting and the ways in which social lives are structured and symbolized by and through violence, people enact terrible things on other human beings almost every day. In Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege, archaeologists Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi bring together a collection of authors who document the ways in which past social formations rested on violent acts and reproduced violent social and cultural structures. The contributors present a series of archaeological case studies that range from the mercury mines of colonial Huancavelica (AD 1564-1824) to the polluted waterways of Indianapolis, Indiana, at the turn of the twentieth century--a problem that disproportionally impacted African American neighborhoods. The individual chapters in this volume collectively argue that positions of power and privilege are fully dependent on forms of violence for their existence and sustenance.
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