Human Remains and Identification

Mass Violence, Genocide, and the ‘Forensic Turn’

Élisabeth Anstett editor Jean-Marc Dreyfus editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:1st Jul '15

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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.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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° 283-617.

ISBN: 9780719097560

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 16mm

Weight: 454g

264 pages