Destruction and human remains : disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence / edited by E+ѓlisabeth Anstett & Jean-Marc Dreyfus.

Destruction and human remains : disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence / edited by Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus.

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TextSeries: Human remains and violencePublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014Distributor: New York : Palgrave Macmillan Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages .)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1781707871
9781781707876
9781847799074
1847799078
9781526125002
1526125005
9781847799067
184779906X

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304.6/63 23

LOC classification:

HV6322.7 .D47 2014

NLM classification:

2015 D-968
HV 6322.7

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Contents:

Introduction: the tales destruction tells / Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- Part I. Actors -- 1. 'As if nothing ever happened': massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community / Max Bergholz -- 2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, chief of the crematorium at Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, 1942-44 / Elissa Mailänder -- 3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses, and the Nazi imagination of the East / Michael McConnell -- Part II. Practices -- 4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear / Raymond H. Kévorkian -- 5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction, and forensics / Robert Jan van Pelt -- 6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of 'disappeared detainees' in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 / Maria Ranalletti -- Part III. Logics -- 7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran / Chowra Makaremi -- 8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa / Nicky Rousseau -- 9. The Tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction, and memory / Rémi Korman -- Index.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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880-02 Introduction: the tales destruction tells / Élisabeth Anstett, Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- Part I. Actors -- 1. 'As if nothing ever happened': massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community / Max Bergholz -- 2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, chief of the crematorium at Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, 1942-44 / Elissa Mailänder -- 3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses, and the Nazi imagination of the East / Michael McConnell -- Part II. Practices -- 4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear / Raymond H. Kévorkian -- 5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction, and forensics / Robert Jan van Pelt -- 6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of 'disappeared detainees' in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 / Maria Ranalletti -- Part III. Logics -- 7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran / Chowra Makaremi -- 8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa / Nicky Rousseau -- 9. The Tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction, and memory / Rémi Korman -- Index.

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