Human Remains and Mass Violence - Methodological Approaches

Informationen zum Autor 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 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 Council Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Corpses and mass violence: an inventory of the unthinkable - Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus1. The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide - Yehonatan Alsheh2. Seeking the dead among the living: Embodying the disappeared of the Argentinean dictatorship through law - Sévane Garibian3. The human body: victim, witness, and proof of mass violence - Caroline Fournet4. Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse: integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence - Jon Shute5. The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war: Croatia, 1941-45 - Alexander Korb6. Renationalizing bodies? The French search mission for the corpses of deportees in Germany, 1946-58 - Jean-Marc Dreyfus7. From bones-as-evidence to tutelary spirits: The status of bodies in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide - Anne Yvonne Guillou8. Display, concealment and 'culture': the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide - Nigel Eltringham9. An anthropological approach to human remains from the Gulag - Élisabeth Anstett Index

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• Authors: Elisabeth Anstett, Elisabeth Dreyfus Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Jean-Marc Anstett Dreyfus, Elisabeth Dreyfus Gessat-Anstett
• Assisted by: Elisabeth Anstett (Editor), Élisabeth Anstett (Editor), Jean-Marc Dreyfus (Editor), Anstett Elisabeth (Editor), Dreyfus Jean-Marc (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2014
• EAN: 9780719096501
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9650-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Human Remains and Violence; Human Remains and Violence Mup; Human Remains and Violence Mup
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)