Human Remains and Identification

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

• Introduction – Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc DreyfusPart I: Agents1. Bitter legacies: A war of extermination, grave looting, and culture wars in the American West – Tony Platt 2. Final chapter: Portraying the exhumation and reburial of Polish Jewish Holocaust victims in the pages of yizkor books – Gabriel Finder 3. Bykivnia: How grave robbers, activists, and foreigners ended official silence about Stalin’s mass graves near Kiev – Karel Berkhoff4. The Concealment of Bodies during the Military Dictatorship in Uruguay (1973–84) – Jose Lopez Mazz Part II: Methods 5. State secrets and concealed bodies: exhumations of Soviet-era victims in contemporary Russia – Viacheslav Bituitcki 6. A mere technical exercise? Challenges and technological solutions to the identification of individuals in mass grave scenarios in the modern context – Tim Thompson and Gillian Fowler 7. Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social: the forensic and political lives of mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sari Wastell and Admir JugoPart III: Stakes8. ‘The political lives of dead bodies’ and ‘the disciplines of the dead’: a view from South Africa – Nicky Rousseau9. Bury or display? The politics of exhumation in post genocide Rwanda – Remi Korman10. Remembering the Japanese occupation massacres: mass graves in post-war Malaysia – Frances TayIndex

Select Guide Rating