Human remains in society : Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence

Human remains in society Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence

Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. This work presents a ground-breaking account of the treatment and commemo...

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Other Authors: Dreyfus, Jean-Marc (Editor), Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth, editor (editor), Dreyfus, Jean-Marc, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2016
Manchester, England : 2018.
Series:Human remains and violence.
Subjects:
Victims of violent crimes.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Genocide > Sociological aspects.
Dead > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009420103806719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The unburied victims of Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion
  • 2 (Re)politicising the dead in post-Holocaust Poland
  • 3 Chained corpses
  • 4 Exhumations in post-war rabbinical responsas
  • 5 (Re)cognising the corpse
  • 6 Corpses of atonement
  • 7 'Earth conceal not my blood'
  • 8 The return of Herero and Nama bones from Germany
  • 9 A Beothuk skeleton (not) in a glass case
  • Index

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