Anstett, Elisabeth y Jean-Marc Dreyfus (2016) Human remains in society. Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence

Ya sea (re)enterrados, ocultos, almacenados, abandonados o expuestos públicamente, los restos humanos plantean un gran número de cuestiones relacionadas con sus usos sociales, legales y éticos.  Este libro presenta un relato innovador del tratamiento y dignificación de los cadáveres resultantes de genocidio u otras violencias, a partir de una serie de estudios de casos internacionales, en los que se explora el efecto que los restos humanos tienen en diversas prácticas políticas, culturales y religiosas.

De alcance multidisciplinario, el libro pretende atraer a lectores/as interesados/as en las fases cruciales de la reconciliación post-conflicto, incluyendo estudiantes e investigadores de Historia, Antropología, Sociología, Arqueología, Derecho y/o Política.

TABLA DE CONTENIDOS:

Introduction. Corpses in society: about human remains, necro-politics, necro-economy and the legacy of mass violence – Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
1. The unburied victims of Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion: where and when does the violence end? – David M. Anderson and Paul J. Lane

2. (Re)politicising the dead in post-Holocaust Poland: the afterlives of human remains at the Belzec extermination camp – Zuzanna Dziuban

3. Chained corpses: warfare, politics and religion after the Habsburg Empire in the Julian March, 1930s-70s – Gaetano Dato

4. Exhumations in post-war rabbinical responsas – David Deutsch

5. (Re)cognising the corpse: individuality, identification and multidirectional memorialisation in post-genocide Rwanda – Ayala Maurer-Prager

6. Corpses of atonement: the discovery, commemoration and reinternment of eleven Alsatian victims of Nazi Terror, 1947-52 – Devlin M. Scofield

7. ‘Earth conceal not my blood’: forensic and archaeological approaches to locating the remains of Holocaust victims – Caroline Sturdy Colls

8. The return of Herero and Nama bones from Germany: the victims’ struggle for recognition and recurring genocide memories in Namibia – Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha

9. A Beothuk skeleton (not) in a glass case: rumours of bones and the remembrance of an exterminated people in Newfoundland – the emotive immateriality of human remains – John Harries

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