I think Galtung's structural violence, though superseded by more recent scholarship, is a useful starting point for wider, systemic inequality.

Thanks, Sven.  I am reading that.  I am wanting to reach beyond archaeology and see what others think is useful.  I've checked Google scholar for citations but things can be highly cited because they are horrible, rather than wonderful!

In Southern Germany there are documented burials of the Gallo-Roman period belonging to disabled persons whose  bodies were deposited in a special way e.g. in a prone position and with stones put on their back (Heidelberg-Neuenheim and Sontheim/Brenz).

Thank you, Joachim. That is interesting.  Do you have a reference for this?

Regards,

Claire

I suggested looking at Jon Marks's Is Science Racist, but it seems not to have stuck.  Here I go again.

Thanks, Iain. I'll look that up. I'm do a lecture on the Archaeology of Racism this week, for National Archaeology Week.

Cheers for now,

Claire

You could go back to the 80s and the vicious vendetta between Wolpoff and Stringer where Wolpoff accused Stringer of being racist for suggesting that Neandertals were not modern humans.

You might find something interesting in this http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-link-between-beauty-pageants-and-trumps-immigration-orders-20170523-gwbp29.html

Thanks, Iain. I'll look at that now. Yes, I can see what you mean.  That is the kind of everyday racism that people often overlook - who is excluded, who can't see themselves in the images of the world around them.  There is a heap of stuff in advertising in Australia and I think elsewhere. Do you think it would be an interesting project to do an international comparison of this kind of material?

I think it strays into broader cultural studies rather than strictly archaeology.  Indeed I would bet  that there is a substantial literature about seeing and representing otherness in cultural studies.

IYes, that makes sense.  But if archaeology is the analysis of material culture, an archaeologist can analyse the material culture of any situation, real or virtual.  I've been reading Peter Graves-Brown on this, and he is persuasive.  Here is a quote from him:

The Internet can be studied by archaeologists at a number of levels. These include both its physical and virtual infrastructure and the virtual artifacts of all kinds created by and through this infrastructure. The nature of the Internet is always changing … These processes are driven by both global/national politics and the desire of capital extract profit from the Internet, countered by those who retain the utopian ideal of free “peer-to-peer” exchange of information (Graves-Brown, 2014:4006).

GRAVES-BROWN, P., 2014, Archaeology of the Internet, in C. SMITH (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York, 4002-4006.

That is a matter of your  choice, of course.  By the way, I think he is Paul.  He was at the Portugal Wenner Gren conference I went to in 1990