ABSTRACT

This paper examines the death and unequal treatment of human remains in contemporary Brazilian society. It provides an innovative approach to documenting practices such as state inaction and structural violence from an archaeology perspective and explores concepts such as contemporary regimes of disappearance, state apparatus, violence and the ‘right to memory’ in a neoliberal context. Rather than merely using dichotomies such as repression and visibility, or oppression versus rights, the aim is to use archaeological evidence to problematize the dominant understandings of politics and question the ways in which class, race and gender are used in neoliberal policies by transforming human beings who were not ‘profitable in life’ into ‘profitable in death’.

摘要

本文探讨了当代巴西社会中人类遗骸的死亡和不平等待遇。它提供了一种从考古学角度记录国家不作为和结构性暴力等实践的创新方法，并探讨了新自由主义背景下的当代失踪制度、国家机器、暴力和“记忆权”等概念。其目的不是仅仅使用镇压和可见性，或镇压与权利等二分法，而是利用考古证据来质疑对政治的主流理解，并质疑新自由主义政策中阶级、种族和性别的使用方式，将那些“生时无利可图”的人转变为“死时有利可图”。