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Cover; Half Title; Series information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The unburied victims of Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion; Human bones in museums: a 'wicked problem'; The Kenya case: human remains in the Nairobi osteology collection; Conclusion: ending the violence?; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; 2 (Re)politicising the dead in post-. Holocaust Poland; Porous graves; The buriable dead; 'Excessive reminders'; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Chained corpses; The Julian March: wars and borders.

The Redipuglia Sacrario: how corpses played out fascist mythsExploiting victims: political propaganda after the foibe of 1943; Corpses forcing political clashes: the Risiera of San Sabba and its public memory; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; 4 Exhumations in post-.war rabbinical responsas; Traditional responsa literature and the issue of exhumation; Responsa sources and statistics; No precedent for collective exhumation; Efrati's early responsa literature; Downplaying exhumation: Greenwald and Sorotzkin; Exhumation as a disgrace; Conclusion: the years after the precedent; Notes.

Bibliography5 (Re) cognising the corpse; Introduction; Anonymity and the impossibility of identification; Corporeal commemoration; Non-. Rwandan = non-.identification?; The multidirectionality of corporeal memory: the case of Andrew Blum; Conclusion: remembering Rwanda; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Corpses of atonement; Discovery, exhumation and the commemorative reinterment of the bodies; Memorialising the atrocity and commemorating the dead; The place of the dead in German and French national memories; Vandalism of the memorial and its ramifications; Notes; Bibliography.

7 'Earth conceal not my blood'Introduction; An evidence paradox; Previous investigations; Popular perceptions; Sensitivities; Religion; Addressing challenges; Treblinka extermination and labour camps, Poland; Historical background; Methodological challenges; Landscape change and current site appearance; Post-.war investigations; Religious beliefs; Common perceptions; Condition of the remains; Stakeholders; Developing a unique approach; Treblinka's hidden evidence; Future challenges; Where are the bodies?; Restoring Identities; Where next?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

8 The return of Herero and Nama bones from GermanyIntroduction; Indiscriminate killing and decapitation; Becoming public; The handover ceremony, discontent and rage; Warning against genocide reparations; Negotiating the future of the genocide skulls in Namibia; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 9 A Beothuk skeleton (not) in a glass case; The extermination of the Beothuk; Beothuk bones; Rumours from Eastport; Archival excavations and discovery of absence; Memories and the affective encounter with bones unseen; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Pioneering anthology that examines the practices regarding human remains in post-conflict societies, using a unique set of case studies that span multiple disciplines and geographic areas.

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