Human remains and identification : Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’

Human remains and identification Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’

A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Anstett, Élisabeth (Editor), Dreyfus, Jean-Marc, editor (editor), Gessat-Anstett, Élisabeth, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2015
Manchester : 2015.
Series:Human remains and violence.
Subjects:
Genocide.
Forensic sciences.
Dead > Identification.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427386806719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Bitter legacies
  • 2 Final chapter
  • 3 Bykivnia
  • 4 The concealment of bodies during the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-84)
  • 5 State secrets and concealed bodies
  • 6 A mere technical exercise?
  • 7 Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social
  • 8 Identification, politics, disciplines
  • 9 Bury or display?
  • 10 Remembering the Japanese occupation massacres
  • Index

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