Destruction and Human Remains

Élisabeth Anstett is a Researcher in Social Anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, and a Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research CouncilJean-Marc Dreyfus is Reader in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester, and a Director of the Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide programme funded by the European Research Council

• Part I1. ‘As if nothing ever happened’: massacres, missing corpses, and silence in a Bosnian community – Max Bergholz2. A specialist: the daily work of Erich Muhsfeldt, Chief of the crematorium at Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp (1942–44) – Elissa Mailänder3. Lands of Unkultur: mass violence, corpses and the Nazi imagination of the East – Michael McConnellPart II4. Earth, fire, water: or how to make the Armenian corpses disappear – Raymond H Kévorkian5. Sinnreich erdacht: machines of mass incineration in fact, fiction and forensics – Robert Jan van Pelt6. When death is not the end: towards a typology of the treatment of corpses of ‘disappeared detainees’ in Argentina from 1975 to 1983 – Mario Rannalletti (with the collaboration of Esteban Pontoriero)Part III7. State violence and death politics in post-revolutionary Iran – Chowra Makaremi8. Death and dismemberment: the body and counter-revolutionary warfare in apartheid South Africa – Nicky Rousseau9. The tutsi body in the 1994 genocide: ideology, physical destruction and memory – Remi Korman Index

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