Human remains and identification : Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’ / / edited by Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus.

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

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Place / Publishing House:Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, 2015.
©2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Human remains and violence.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s).
Notes:
  • Description based upon print version of record.
  • Originally published: 2015.
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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