Human remains in society : Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence /

Human remains in society : Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence /

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Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. This work presents a ground-breaking account of the treatment and commemo...

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Other Authors: Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (Editor), Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dead > Social aspects.
Genocide > Sociological aspects.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Victims of violent crimes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing.
Archaeology.
Anthropology.
Morts > Aspect social.
Victimes de violence.
Restes humains (Archeologie)
Electronic book
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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, 1947-1952
  • 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
  • John Harries Index.

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