Human remains and identification

Mass violence, genocide, and the 'forensic turn'
Herausgeber: Anstett, Élisabeth; Dreyfus, Jean-Marc

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097560
• ISBN-10: 0719097568
• Artikelnr.: 42372397

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

Introduction - Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus Part I: Agents 1.
Bitter legacies: A war of extermination, grave looting, and culture wars in
the American West - Tony Platt 2. Final chapter: Portraying the exhumation
and reburial of Polish Jewish Holocaust victims in the pages of yizkor
books - Gabriel Finder 3. Bykivnia: How grave robbers, activists, and
foreigners ended official silence about Stalin's mass graves near Kiev -
Karel Berkhoff 4. The Concealment of Bodies during the Military
Dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-84) - Jose Lopez Mazz Part II: Methods 5.
State secrets and concealed bodies: exhumations of Soviet-era victims in
contemporary Russia - Viacheslav Bituitcki 6. A mere technical exercise?
Challenges and technological solutions to the identification of individuals
in mass grave scenarios in the modern context - Tim Thompson and Gillian
Fowler 7. Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social: the forensic
and political lives of mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sari Wastell
and Admir Jugo Part III: Stakes 8. 'The political lives of dead bodies' and
'the disciplines of the dead': a view from South Africa - Nicky Rousseau 9.
Bury or display? The politics of exhumation in post genocide Rwanda - Remi
Korman 10. Remembering the Japanese occupation massacres: mass graves in
post-war Malaysia - Frances Tay Index