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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