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Record Nr.

UNISA996552361303316

Autore

Anstett Élisabeth

Titolo

Human remains and identification : Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’ / / edited by Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2015

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78499-197-X

1-5261-2501-3

1-5261-0444-X

1-78499-196-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

Human remains and violence

Disciplina

363.2/562

Soggetti

Genocide

Forensic sciences

Dead - Identification

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Originally published: 2015.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Bitter legacies -- 2 Final chapter -- 3 Bykivnia -- 4 The concealment of bodies during the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-84) -- 5 State secrets and concealed bodies -- 6 A mere technical exercise? -- 7 Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social -- 8 Identification, politics, disciplines -- 9 Bury or display? -- 10 Remembering the Japanese occupation massacres -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.