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Human remains and identification presents a pioneering
investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the
search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass
violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists
and historians here confront historical and contemporary
exhumations with the application of social context to create an
innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue, enlightening the
political, social and legal aspects of mass crime and its
aftermaths. Through a ground-breaking selection of international
case studies, Human remains and identification argues that the
emergence of new technologies to facilitate the identification of
dead bodies has led to a "forensic turn", normalising exhumations
as a method of dealing with human remains en masse. However, are
these exhumations always made for legitimate reasons?
Multidisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to readers
interested in understanding this crucial phase of mass violence's
aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology,
sociology, forensic science, law, politics and modern warfare. The
research program leading to this publication has received funding
from the European Research Council under the European Union's
Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n
Degrees 283-617. -- .
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question
frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass
violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the
victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence,
death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their
victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific
ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often
with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented
phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary
and archival research to explore why, how and by whom these acts
have been committed through recent history. Interdisciplinary in
scope, Destruction and human remains will appeal to readers
interested in the history and implications of genocide and mass
violence, including researchers in anthropology, sociology,
history, politics and modern warfare. -- .
Human remains and identification presents a pioneering
investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the
search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass
violence. Previously absent from forensic debate, social scientists
and historians here confront historical and contemporary
exhumations with the application of social context to create an
innovative and interdisciplinary dialogue, enlightening the
political, social and legal aspects of mass crime and its
aftermaths. Through a ground-breaking selection of international
case studies, Human remains and identification argues that the
emergence of new technologies to facilitate the identification of
dead bodies has led to a "forensic turn", normalising exhumations
as a method of dealing with human remains en masse. However, are
these exhumations always made for legitimate reasons?
Multidisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to readers
interested in understanding this crucial phase of mass violence's
aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology,
sociology, forensic science, law, politics and modern warfare. The
research program leading to this publication has received funding
from the European Research Council under the European Union's
Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n
Degrees 283-617. -- .
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the
theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains
resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the
highly innovative and contemporary research into both mass violence
and the body, the most significant consequence of conflict - the
corpse - remains absent from the scope of existing research. Why
have human remains hitherto remained absent from our investigation,
and how do historians, anthropologists and legal scholars,
including specialists in criminology and political science,
confront these difficult issues? By drawing on international case
studies including genocides in Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge, Argentina,
Russia and the context of post-World War II Europe, this
ground-breaking edited collection opens new avenues of research.
Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers
interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath,
including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law,
politics and modern warfare. The research program leading to this
publication has received funding from the European Research Council
under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme
(FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n Degrees 283-617. -- .
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the
theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains
resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the
highly innovative and contemporary research into both mass violence
and the body, the most significant consequence of conflict - the
corpse - remains absent from the scope of existing research. Why
have human remains hitherto remained absent from our investigation,
and how do historians, anthropologists and legal scholars,
including specialists in criminology and political science,
confront these difficult issues? By drawing on international case
studies including genocides in Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge, Argentina,
Russia and the context of post-World War II Europe, this
ground-breaking edited collection opens new avenues of research.
Multidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers
interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath,
including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law,
politics and modern warfare. The research program leading to this
publication has received funding from the European Research Council
under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme
(FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n Degrees 283-617. -- .
"Paradoxically, while the fragmentation, desecration or abandonment
of remains is attested in many archaeological or historical
contexts, the intentional absence of funerary rites has not yet
been the subject of systematic or comparative studies in the social
sciences. Therefore, little is known about what leads a society to
intentionally deprive an individual of funeral treatment. Are the
modalities of funeral deprivation always and everywhere the same?
Or do they vary according to socio-historical context, being
singularly linked to crisis situations? What are the different
issues at stake in the deprivation of funeral treatment? More
generally and analytically, on the basis of what concrete elements
can we identify and qualify situations of deprivation of funeral
rites? To answer this vast set of questions, this volume gathers
twelve contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists and
historians, the fruit of collective work carried out during study
sessions that took place in 2021 and 2022 in Montpellier and
Marseille. These sessions initiated a particularly rich and dense
interdisciplinary and diachronic reflection on the diversity of
motivations that lead to the intentional deprivation of funerals.
Taken together, the twelve chapters also invite us to reflect on
the intellectual path that allows us to attest the absence of
funerary treatment, from archaeological, historical or ethnographic
data, and on the intellectual and theoretical tools available to
approach the question of the deprivation of funerals."
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