Human Remains in Society: Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-Violence
Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Abstract
This book addresses the practices, treatment and commemoration of victims’ remains in post-genocide and mass violence contexts. Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publically displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding their legal, ethical and social uses.
Human Remains in Society will raise these issues by examining when, how and why bodies are hidden or exhibited. Using case studies from multiple continents, each chapter will interrogate their effect on human remains, either desired or unintended, on various political, cultural or religious practices. Ho ... More
This book addresses the practices, treatment and commemoration of victims’ remains in post-genocide and mass violence contexts. Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publically displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding their legal, ethical and social uses.
Human Remains in Society will raise these issues by examining when, how and why bodies are hidden or exhibited. Using case studies from multiple continents, each chapter will interrogate their effect on human remains, either desired or unintended, on various political, cultural or religious practices. How, for instance, do issues of confiscation, concealment or the destruction of bodies and body parts in mass crime impact on transitional processes, commemoration or judicial procedures?
Keywords:
Curation,
Exhibition,
Storage,
Bone collections,
Museums,
Anthropology,
History,
Social sciences,
Exhumation,
Extermination camps,
Necropolitics,
forensics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781526107381 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: May 2017 |
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9781526107381.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Élisabeth Anstett, editor
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, editor
University of Manchester
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