Human Remains and Mass Violence

Methodological Approaches

Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Élisabeth Anstett, Elisabeth Anstett , Bethan Hirst

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English

Manchester University Press
30 December 2014

Archaeological methodology & techniques; Violence in society; Forensic science

Series: Human Remains and Violence

This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the highly innovative and contemporary research into both mass violence and the body, the most significant consequence of conflict - the corpse - remains absent

Edited by: Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Élisabeth Anstett
Series edited by: Elisabeth Anstett
Other: Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780719096501
ISBN 10: 0719096502
Series: Human Remains and Violence
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 December 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Index -- .

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 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 -- .