Human remains in society (eBook, ePUB)

Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence
Redaktion: Dreyfus, Jean-Marc; Anstett, Élisabeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Human remains and society presents a groundbreaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publically displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. Through a diverse range of international case studies, across multiple continents, this highly innovative book explores the effect of dead bodies or body parts, either desired or unintended, on various political, cultural or religious practices. How, for instance, do issues of confiscation, concealment or the destruction of human remains in mass crime impact on transitional processes, commemoration or judicial procedures? Multidisciplinary in scope, Human remains and society will appeal to readers interested in the crucial phase of post-conflict reconciliation. This includes students and researchers of history, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, law, politics and modern warfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526108197
• Artikelnr.: 48026499

Autorenporträt

Jean-Marc Dreyfus is Reader in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester, UK and a director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research Council Élisabeth Anstett is 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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Corpses in society: about human remains, necro
politics, necro
economy and the legacy of mass violence
Élisabeth Anstett and Jean
Marc Dreyfus 1. The unburied victims of Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion: where and when does the violence end?
David M. Anderson and Paul J. Lane 2. (Re)politicising the dead in post
Holocaust Poland: the afterlives of human remains at the Belzec extermination camp
Zuzanna Dziuban 3. Chained corpses: warfare, politics and religion after the Habsburg Empire in the Julian March, 1930s
70s
Gaetano Dato 4. Exhumations in post
war rabbinical responsas
David Deutsch 5. (Re)cognising the corpse: individuality, identification and multidirectional memorialisation in post
genocide Rwanda
Ayala Maurer
Prager 6. Corpses of atonement: the discovery, commemoration and reinternment of eleven Alsatian victims of Nazi Terror, 1947
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Devlin M. Scofield 7. 'Earth conceal not my blood': forensic and archaeological approaches to locating the remains of Holocaust victims
Caroline Sturdy Colls 8. The return of Herero and Nama bones from Germany: the victims' struggle for recognition and recurring genocide memories in Namibia
Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha 9. A Beothuk skeleton (not) in a glass case: rumours of bones and the remembrance of an exterminated people in Newfoundland
the emotive immateriality of human remains
John Harries Index