Human Remains in Society : Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-violence
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Human Remains in Society : Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-violence

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Human Remains in Society : Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-violence

About this book

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 book presents a ground-breaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Through a range of international case studies across multiple continents, it explores the effect of dead bodies or body parts on various political, cultural and religious practices. Multidisciplinary in scope, it will appeal to readers interested in this crucial phase of post-conflict reconciliation, including students and researchers of history, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, law, politics and modern warfare.

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Yes, you can access Human Remains in Society : Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-violence by Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Élisabeth Anstett in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front matter
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures
  4. List of contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. The unburied victims of Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion: where and when does the violence end?
  8. (Re)politicising the dead in post-Holocaust Poland: the afterlives of human remains at the Belzec extermination camp
  9. Chained corpses: warfare, politics and religion after the Habsburg Empire in the Julian March, 1930s– 1970s
  10. Exhumations in post-war rabbinical responsas
  11. (Re)cognising the corpse: individuality, identification and multidirectional memorialisation in post-genocide Rwanda
  12. Corpses of atonement: the discovery, commemoration and reinterment of eleven Alsatian victims of Nazi terror, 1947– 52
  13. ‘Earth conceal not my blood’: forensic and archaeological approaches to locating the remains of Holocaust victims
  14. The return of Herero and Nama bones from Germany: the victims' struggle for recognition and recurring genocide memories in Namibia
  15. 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
  16. Index