Dreyfus / Unknown / Anstett Human remains and mass violence

Methodological approaches
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2502-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Human Remains and Violence

Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics and modern warfare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Dreyfus, Jean-Marc

Anstett, Élisabeth

Anstett, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Corpses and mass violence: an inventory of the unthinkable – Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
1. The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide – Yehonatan Alsheh
2. Seeking the dead among the living: Embodying the disappeared of the Argentinean dictatorship through law – Sévane Garibian
3. The human body: victim, witness, and proof of mass violence – Caroline Fournet
4. Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse: integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence – Jon Shute
5. The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war: Croatia, 1941–45 – Alexander Korb
6. Renationalizing bodies? The French search mission for the corpses of deportees in Germany, 1946–58 – Jean-Marc Dreyfus
7. From bones-as-evidence to tutelary spirits: The status of bodies in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide – Anne Yvonne Guillou
8. Display, concealment and ‘culture’: the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide – Nigel Eltringham
9. An anthropological approach to human remains from the Gulag – Élisabeth Anstett
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Über Autor(innen)

Dreyfus 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 CouncilAnstett 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 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