Anstett / Unknown / Dreyfus Destruction and human remains

Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2500-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Human Remains and Violence

Investigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Anstett, Élisabeth

Dreyfus, Jean-Marc

Anstett, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I
1. ‘As if nothing ever happened’: massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community – Max Bergholz
2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, Chief of the crematorium at Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp (1942–44) – Elissa Mailänder
3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses and the Nazi imagination of the East – Michael McConnell

Part II
4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear – Raymond H Kévorkian
5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction and forensics – Robert Jan van Pelt
6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of ‘disappeared detainees’ in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 – Mario Rannalletti (with the collaboration of Esteban Pontoriero)

Part III
7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran – Chowra Makaremi
8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa – Nicky Rousseau
9. The tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction and memory – Remi Korman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anstett Élisabeth:
Élisabeth Anstett is a 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 CouncilDreyfus Jean-Marc:
Jean-Marc Dreyfus is Reader in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester and a Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research CouncilÉlisabeth Anstett is a 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

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