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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-Marc Dreyfus; Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett |
ISBN: | 9781526107381 1526107384 |
OCLC Number: | 952368660 |
Description: | xiv, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction. Corpses in society : about human remains, necro-politics, necro-economy and the legacy of mass violence / Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- The unburied victims of Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion : where and when does the violence end? / David M. Anderson and Paul J. Lane -- (Re)politicising the dead in post-Holocaust Poland : the afterlives of human remains at the Bełżec extermination camp / Zuzanna Dziuban -- Chained corpses : warfare, politics and religion after the Hapsburg Empire in the Julian March, 1930s-1970s / Gaetano Dato -- Exhumations in post-war rabbinical responsas / David Deutsch -- (Re)cognising the corpse : individuality, identification and multidirectional memorialisation in post-genocide Rwanda / Ayala Maurer-Prager -- Corpses of atonement : the discovery, commemoration and reinterment of eleven Alsatian victims of Nazi terror, 1947-52 / Devlin M. Scofield -- 'Earth conceal not my blood' : forensic and archaeological approaches to locating the remains of Holocaust victims / Caroline Sturdy Colls -- The return of Herero and Nama bones from Germany : the victims' struggle for recognition and recurring genocide memories in Namibia / Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha / 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. |
Series Title: | Human remains and violence. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Anstett. |
Abstract:
This pioneering collection examines the practices surrounding human remains in post-conflict societies, using a unique set of case studies that span multiple disciplines and geographic areas. -- .
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