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Informationen zum Autor 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 CouncilJean-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 Klappentext A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc DreyfusPart I: Agents1. Bitter legacies: A war of extermination, grave looting, and culture wars in the American West - Tony Platt 2. Final chapter: Portraying the exhumation and reburial of Polish Jewish Holocaust victims in the pages of yizkor books - Gabriel Finder 3. Bykivnia: How grave robbers, activists, and foreigners ended official silence about Stalin's mass graves near Kiev - Karel Berkhoff4. The Concealment of Bodies during the Military Dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-84) - Jose Lopez Mazz Part II: Methods 5. State secrets and concealed bodies: exhumations of Soviet-era victims in contemporary Russia - Viacheslav Bituitcki 6. 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 7. Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social: the forensic and political lives of mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sari Wastell and Admir JugoPart III: Stakes8. 'The political lives of dead bodies' and 'the disciplines of the dead': a view from South Africa - Nicky Rousseau9. Bury or display? The politics of exhumation in post genocide Rwanda - Remi Korman10. Remembering the Japanese occupation massacres: mass graves in post-war Malaysia - Frances TayIndex...
