Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege
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Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege

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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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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780826361851
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Archaeology
Index
Social Sciences
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(1) 
the 
trope 
of 
“collapse” 
that 
has 
become 
a 
mainstay 
of 
popular 
conceptions 
of 
the 
Maya 
and 
archaeological 
interpretations 
of 
the 
Classic-period 
Maya 
aban-
donment 
of 
the 
large 
urban 
settlements 
in 
the 
Petén 
region 
(Borgestede 
and 
Yae-
ger 
2008:99); 
(2) 
archaeological 
interpretations 
of 
Maya 
precolonial 
migrations; 
(3) 
the 
assumed 
“rupture” 
of 
colonization, 
including 
the 
demographic 
collapse 
caused 
by 
disease 
(as 
per 
Dobyns 
1991; 
Dunnell 
1991) 
and 
assimilationist 
strate-
gies 
of 
the 
Spanish 
(see 
Haber 
2007) 
that 
rendered 
the 
colonial 
Maya 
past 
and 
present 
as 
fundamentally 
different 
(and 
disconnected) 
from 
what 
came 
before; 
and 
(4) 
the 
overwhelming 
archaeological 
bias 
for 
Preclassic 
and 
Classic 
Maya 
sites 
in 
Guatemala 
to 
the 
exclusion 
of 
the 
colonial 
period 
from 
archaeological 
histories 
of 
the 
Maya.
Beyond 
this 
critique, 
and 
considering 
that 
archaeology 
has 
contributed 
to 
the 
emergence 
of 
these 
dispossessing 
narratives, 
I 
argue 
that 
the 
discipline 
and 
its 
practitioners 
have 
a 
responsibility 
to 
address 
these 
temporal 
investigative 
biases 
and 
historical 
erasures. 
Moreover, 
historical 
or 
colonial 
archaeology 
in 
highland 
F
I
G
U
R
E
3
.1
Locational 
map, 
highland 
Guatemala. 
(The 
circle 
shows 
the 
Antigua 
and 
Alotenango 
Valleys.)

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Chapter 1. An Introduction to Archaeologies of Violence and Privilege by Christopher N. Matthews and Bradley D. Phillippi
  8. Chapter 2. Violence in Archaeology and the Violence of Archaeology by Reinhard Bernbeck
  9. Chapter 3. Discursive Violence and Archaeological Ruptures: Archaeologies of Colonialism and Narrative Privilege in Highland Guatemala by Guido Pezzarossi
  10. Chapter 4. Spanish Colonialism and Spatial Violence by Kathryn E. Sampeck
  11. Chapter 5. “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
  12. Chapter 6. The Violence of “A More Sensitive Class of Persons”: Privilege, Landscape, and Class Struggle in Northeast Pennsylvania by Michael P. Roller
  13. Chapter 7. Sifting through Multiple Layers of Violence: The Archaeology of Gardens of a WWII Japanese American Incarceration Camp by Koji Lau-Ozawa
  14. Chapter 8. Race and the Water: Swimming, Sewers, and Structural Violence in African America by Paul R. Mullins, Kyle Huskins, and Susan B. Hyatt
  15. Chapter 9. Binocular Vision: Making the Carceral Metropolis in Northern New Jersey by Christopher N. Matthews
  16. Chapter 10. Commentary: The Violence of Violence? by Louann Wurst
  17. Chapter 11. Forum: Thoughts and Future Directions
  18. References Cited
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index