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

Human remains and identification : mass violence, genocide and the 'forensic turn' /
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Human Remains and Identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists and historians here confront historical and contempor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth (Editor ), Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Colección:Human remains and violence.
Temas:
Dead > Identification.
Forensic sciences.
Genocide.
Forensic Sciences
Morts > Identification.
Criminalistique.
forensic science.
Humanities.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
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.

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