‘Outlaw’ is not a common category of archaeological thought but it is perhaps more useful than meets the eye. ‘Outlaws’ are typically viewed as contingent on legal and capitalist systems; they are, I suggest, also material, affective phenomena that draw our attention to how transgression, dissent and disorder are conceived through archaeological thinking. Here, I outline some ways in which ‘outlaw’ figures are ‘good to think with’, particularly for historical and colonial contexts but also for broader, more global frontier situations. Through three sketches of archetypal ‘outlaws’ in southern Africa's recent past, I consider where these disruptive figures draw attention to how mobility, violence, rebellion and state imagination (and the limits thereof) have been imagined through material misbehaviours.

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赞美不法分子

“亡命之徒”不是考古学思想的一个常见类别，但它可能比看上去更有用。“不法之徒”通常被视为取决于法律和资本主义制度；我认为，它们也是物质的、情感的现象，让我们注意到违法、异议和混乱是如何通过考古思维来构思的。在这里，我概述了一些“非法”人物“值得思考”的方式，特别是对于历史和殖民背景，但也适用于更广泛、更全球化的边境情况。通过三个关于南部非洲最近过去的原型“不法分子”的草图，我考虑了这些破坏性人物在哪里引起了人们对流动性、暴力、叛乱和国家想象（及其局限性）如何通过物质不当行为的想象。