Human Remains and Mass Violence

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: Corpses and mass violence: an inventory of the unthinkable – Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus1. The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide – Yehonatan Alsheh2. Seeking the dead among the living: Embodying the disappeared of the Argentinean dictatorship through law – Sévane Garibian3. The human body: victim, witness, and proof of mass violence – Caroline Fournet4. Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse: integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence – Jon Shute5. The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war: Croatia, 1941–45 – Alexander Korb6. Renationalizing bodies? The French search mission for the corpses of deportees in Germany, 1946–58 – Jean-Marc Dreyfus7. From bones-as-evidence to tutelary spirits: The status of bodies in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide – Anne Yvonne Guillou8. Display, concealment and ‘culture’: the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide – Nigel Eltringham9. An anthropological approach to human remains from the Gulag – Élisabeth Anstett Index