Human Remains in Society : Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-Violence
(Human Remains and Violence MUP)
Material Type | E-Book |
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Publisher | Manchester : Manchester University Press |
Year | 2016 |
Language | English |
Size | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Contents | Cover; Half Title; Series information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The unburied victims of Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion; Human bones in museums: a 'wicked problem'; The Kenya case: human remains in the Nairobi osteology collection; Conclusion: ending the violence?; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; 2 (Re)politicising the dead in post-. Holocaust Poland; Porous graves; The buriable dead; 'Excessive reminders'; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Chained corpses; The Julian March: wars and borders The Redipuglia Sacrario: how corpses played out fascist mythsExploiting victims: political propaganda after the foibe of 1943; Corpses forcing political clashes: the Risiera of San Sabba and its public memory; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 4 Exhumations in post-.war rabbinical responsas; Traditional responsa literature and the issue of exhumation; Responsa sources and statistics; No precedent for collective exhumation; Efrati's early responsa literature; Downplaying exhumation: Greenwald and Sorotzkin; Exhumation as a disgrace; Conclusion: the years after the precedent; Notes 7 'Earth conceal not my blood'Introduction; An evidence paradox; Previous investigations; Popular perceptions; Sensitivities; Religion; Addressing challenges; Treblinka extermination and labour camps, Poland; Historical background; Methodological challenges; Landscape change and current site appearance; Post-.war investigations; Religious beliefs; Common perceptions; Condition of the remains; Stakeholders; Developing a unique approach; Treblinka's hidden evidence; Future challenges; Where are the bodies?; Restoring Identities; Where next?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography 8 The return of Herero and Nama bones from GermanyIntroduction; Indiscriminate killing and decapitation; Becoming public; The handover ceremony, discontent and rage; Warning against genocide reparations; Negotiating the future of the genocide skulls in Namibia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 9 A Beothuk skeleton (not) in a glass case; The extermination of the Beothuk; Beothuk bones; Rumours from Eastport; Archival excavations and discovery of absence; Memories and the affective encounter with bones unseen; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Notes | Pioneering anthology that examines the practices regarding human remains in post-conflict societies, using a unique set of case studies that span multiple disciplines and geographic areas Open Access Bibliography5 (Re) cognising the corpse; Introduction; Anonymity and the impossibility of identification; Corporeal commemoration; Non-. Rwandan = non-.identification?; The multidirectionality of corporeal memory: the case of Andrew Blum; Conclusion: remembering Rwanda; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Corpses of atonement; Discovery, exhumation and the commemorative reinterment of the bodies; Memorialising the atrocity and commemorating the dead; The place of the dead in German and French national memories; Vandalism of the memorial and its ramifications; Notes; Bibliography Print version record |
Authors | Dreyfus, Jean-Marc. Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth. |
Subjects | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books LCSH:Dead -- Social aspects All Subject Search LCSH:Victims of violent crimes LCSH:Genocide -- Sociological aspects All Subject Search LCSH:Human remains (Archaeology) FREE:Anthropology FREE:Society and social sciences Society and social sciences FREE:Sociology and anthropology BISACSH:BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure All Subject Search BISACSH:SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General All Subject Search FREE:Dead -- Social aspects All Subject Search FREE:Genocide -- Sociological aspects All Subject Search FREE:Human remains (Archaeology) FREE:Victims of violent crimes |
Classification | DC:363.2562 |
ID | ED00003703 |
ISBN | 9781526108180 |
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