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Book SynopsisMultidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics and modern warfare. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Corpses and mass violence: an inventory of the unthinkable – Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
1. The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide – Yehonatan Alsheh
2. Seeking the dead among the living: Embodying the disappeared of the Argentinean dictatorship through law – Sévane Garibian
3. The human body: victim, witness, and proof of mass violence – Caroline Fournet
4. Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse: integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence – Jon Shute
5. The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war: Croatia, 1941–45 – Alexander Korb
6. Renationalizing bodies? The French search mission for the corpses of deportees in Germany, 1946–58 – Jean-Marc Dreyfus
7. From bones-as-evidence to tutelary spirits: The status of bodies in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide – Anne Yvonne Guillou
8. Display, concealment and ‘culture’: the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide – Nigel Eltringham
9. An anthropological approach to human remains from the Gulag – Élisabeth Anstett
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