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Grave robbing --- Exhumation --- Tombs --- Funeral rites and ceremonies

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

Genocide. --- Forensic sciences. --- Dead --- Identification. --- Identification of the dead --- Criminalistics --- Forensic science --- Science --- Criminal investigation --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- History --- Human Remains --- Ethics --- Genocide --- Violence --- Identification --- Exhumation --- Burial --- Mass grave --- Poland

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Between 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell as icons whose lives, deaths and corpses illustrated the victories of English Protestantism,the values of Monarchism (or Republicanism), and the superiority of the English culture and its language. In particular, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries. They constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. These 'texts' accompanied and enhanced the traditional texts of chronicle, literature, and epitaph.
This study explores the cooperation of ideology and aesthetic, the paradox of allure and revulsion, and the uncanny attraction to death. In each case there is a desire for the dead to speak in a contemporary voice; each historical personage becomes symbolic of larger aspects of the contemporary culture. The discourse of the noble body in death is reconfigured to validate English nationalist ideals and to establish the past as a Golden Era of unimpeachable superiority. It was not enough simply to study the lives and deaths of historical figures. It was necessary to disinter the corpses, engage physically with the dead, and experience the discourse of validation.

THEA TOMAINI is Associate Professor of English (Teaching) at the University of Southern California.

Antiquities --- Exhumation --- Grave robbing --- Nationalism and literature --- Political aspects --- History. --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Political aspects. --- Historiography. --- Histoire --- Historiographie --- Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature. --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Disinterment --- Autopsy --- Burial --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Grave robbery --- Robbing graves --- Theft --- 1714-1901

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This unique reference provides a primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal commumity for the understanding of burned bone remains in forensic or archaeological contexts. It describes in detail the changes in human bone and soft tissues as a body burns at both the chemical and gross levels and provides an overview of the current procedures in burned bone study. Case studies in forensic and archaeological settings aid those interested in the analysis of burned human bodies, from death scene investigators, to biological anthropologists looking at the recent or ancient dead.* I

Forensic anthropology. --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Burns and scalds --- Research. --- Forensic anthropology --- Anthropologie légale --- Brûlures --- Sépulture --- Pathologie médico-légale --- Anthropologie légale --- Brûlures --- Forensic pathology --- Burial --- Diagnosis, Laboratory --- Sépulture --- Diagnostics biologiques --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Methodology --- Pathophysiology --- Méthodologie --- Physiopathologie --- Forensic Anthropology. --- Anthropology, Forensic --- Human Identification --- Human Identifications --- Identification, Human --- Identifications, Human --- Body Remains --- Exhumation --- Biometric Identification --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Medicolegal anthropology --- Forensic sciences --- Physical anthropology --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Forensic Pathology --- Burns --- Clinical Laboratory Techniques. --- Mortuary Practice. --- Methods. --- Pathology. --- Anthropology

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Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.

Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation --- Afghanistan --- Holocaust --- Cambodia --- Extraordinary Rendition --- United States --- United Nations --- Gender --- Syria --- Latin America --- Bosnia --- Execution --- Iran --- Enforced Disappearance --- Kashmir --- Guatemala --- Iraq --- Mass graves --- Transitional Justice --- Reparation --- International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances --- UN Convention --- Transnational Justice --- Rwanda --- Exhumation --- Burma --- Half widows --- Genocide --- Historical Memory --- Human Rights --- Rohingya --- Healing --- International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Pr