Human Remains and Mass Violence : Methodological Approaches /

Human Remains and Mass Violence : Methodological Approaches /

Human remains and mass violence : methodological approaches /
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This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the highly innovative and contemporary research into both mass violence and the body, the most significant con...

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Other Authors: Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth (Editor), Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Massenmord
Vertreibung
Massengrab
Völkermord
Mass murder investigation.
Mass burials.
Forensic pathology.
Violence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
violence.
Pathologie medico-legale.
Sepultures collectives.
Meurtre multiple > Enquêtes.
Forensic Pathology
Genocide > history
Corpse Dismemberment
Violence
Homicide
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Corpses and mass violence : an inventory of the unthinkable / Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
  • The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide / Yehonatan Alsheh
  • Seeking the dead among the living : embodying the disappeared of the Argentinian dictatorship through law / Sevane Garibian
  • The human body : victim, witness and evidence of mass violence / Caroline Fournet
  • Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse : integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence / Jon Shute
  • The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war : Croatia, 1941-45 / Alexander Korb
  • Renationalizing bodies? The French search mission for the corpses of deportees in Germany, 1946-58 / Jean-Marc Dreyfus
  • From bones-as-evidence to tutelary spirits : the status of bodies in the aftermath of the Khmer Rough genocide / Anne Yvonne Guillou
  • Display, concealment and 'culture' : the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide / Nigel Eltringham
  • An anthropological approach to human remains from the gulags / Elisabeth Anstett.

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