Destruction and human remains : disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence /
Destruction and human remains : disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence /
edited by Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages .)
- Human remains and violence .
- Human remains and violence. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the tales destruction tells / Part I. Actors -- 1. 'As if nothing ever happened': massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community / 2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, chief of the crematorium at Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, 1942-44 / 3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses, and the Nazi imagination of the East / Part II. Practices -- 4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear / 5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction, and forensics / 6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of 'disappeared detainees' in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 / Part III. Logics -- 7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran / 8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa / 9. The Tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction, and memory / Index. Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- Max Bergholz -- Elissa Mailänder -- Michael McConnell -- Raymond H. Kévorkian -- Robert Jan van Pelt -- Maria Ranalletti -- Chowra Makaremi -- Nicky Rousseau -- Rémi Korman --
Open Access
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary and archival research to explore why, how and by whom these acts have been committed through recent history. Interdisciplinary in scope, Destruction and human remains will appeal to readers interested in the history and implications of genocide and mass violence, including researchers in anthropology, sociology, history, politics and modern warfare.
In English.
1781707871 9781781707876 9781847799074 1847799078 9781526125002 1526125005 9781847799067 184779906X
22573/ctt1wn13ss JSTOR 100120 Knowledge Unlatched
GBB7A0263 bnb GBC1D9212 bnb
016855590 Uk 018370924 Uk 020285280 Uk
Mass burials.
Genocide.
Mass murder.
Homicide--history.
War Crimes.
Genocide.
Social Sciences.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Humanities.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Demography.
HISTORY--Modern--20th Century.
Genocide.
Mass burials.
Mass murder.
Destruction Ethics Exhumation Genocide History Human remains Violence
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV6322.7 / .D47 2014
304.6/63
2015 D-968 HV 6322.7
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the tales destruction tells / Part I. Actors -- 1. 'As if nothing ever happened': massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community / 2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, chief of the crematorium at Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, 1942-44 / 3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses, and the Nazi imagination of the East / Part II. Practices -- 4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear / 5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction, and forensics / 6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of 'disappeared detainees' in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 / Part III. Logics -- 7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran / 8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa / 9. The Tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction, and memory / Index. Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- Max Bergholz -- Elissa Mailänder -- Michael McConnell -- Raymond H. Kévorkian -- Robert Jan van Pelt -- Maria Ranalletti -- Chowra Makaremi -- Nicky Rousseau -- Rémi Korman --
Open Access
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary and archival research to explore why, how and by whom these acts have been committed through recent history. Interdisciplinary in scope, Destruction and human remains will appeal to readers interested in the history and implications of genocide and mass violence, including researchers in anthropology, sociology, history, politics and modern warfare.
In English.
1781707871 9781781707876 9781847799074 1847799078 9781526125002 1526125005 9781847799067 184779906X
22573/ctt1wn13ss JSTOR 100120 Knowledge Unlatched
GBB7A0263 bnb GBC1D9212 bnb
016855590 Uk 018370924 Uk 020285280 Uk
Mass burials.
Genocide.
Mass murder.
Homicide--history.
War Crimes.
Genocide.
Social Sciences.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Humanities.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Demography.
HISTORY--Modern--20th Century.
Genocide.
Mass burials.
Mass murder.
Destruction Ethics Exhumation Genocide History Human remains Violence
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HV6322.7 / .D47 2014
304.6/63
2015 D-968 HV 6322.7