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Human remains and identification : mass violence, genocide and the 'forensic turn' /

A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth (Editor ), Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017?]
Colección:Human remains and violence.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
  • Part I: Agents. Bitter legacies: A war of extermination, grave looting, and culture wars in the American West / Tony Platt
  • Final chapter: Portraying the exhumation and reburial of Polish Jewish Holocaust victims in the pages of yizkor books / Gabriel Finder
  • Bykivnia: How grave robbers, activists, and foreigners ended official silence about Stalin's mass graves near Kiev / Karel Berkhoff
  • The Concealment of Bodies during the Military Dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-84) / Jose Lopez Mazz
  • Part II: Methods. State secrets and concealed bodies: exhumations of Soviet-era victims in contemporary Russia / Viacheslav Bituitcki
  • A mere technical exercise? Challenges and technological solutions to the identification of individuals in mass grave scenarios in the modern context / Tim Thompson and Gillian Fowler
  • Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social: the forensic and political lives of mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Sari Wastell and Admir Jugo Part III: Stakes
  • 'The political lives of dead bodies' and 'the disciplines of the dead': a view from South Africa / Nicky Rousseau
  • Bury or display? The politics of exhumation in post genocide Rwanda / Remi Korman
  • Remembering the Japanese occupation massacres: mass graves in post-war Malaysia / Frances Tay.