Destruction and human remains

Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence
Herausgeber: Anstett, Élisabeth; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9781526116734
• ISBN-10: 1526116731
• Artikelnr.: 47560957

Autorenporträt

Élisabeth Anstett is a Researcher in Social Anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, and a Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research Council Jean-Marc Dreyfus is Reader in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester, and a Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research Council

Inhaltsangabe

Part I 1. 'As if nothing ever happened': massacres, missing corpses, and
silence in a Bosnian community - Max Bergholz 2. A specialist: the daily
work of Erich Muhsfeldt, Chief of the crematorium at Majdanek Concentration
and Extermination Camp (1942-44) - Elissa Mailänder 3. Lands of Unkultur:
mass violence, corpses and the Nazi imagination of the East - Michael
McConnell Part II 4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian
corpses disappear - Raymond H Kévorkian 5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of
mass incineration in fact, fiction and forensics - Robert Jan van Pelt 6.
When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses
of 'disappeared detainees' in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 - Mario
Rannalletti (with the collaboration of Esteban Pontoriero) Part III 7.
State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran - Chowra
Makaremi 8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary
warfare in apartheid South Africa - Nicky Rousseau 9. The tutsi body in the
1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction and memory - Remi Korman
Index