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The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims of human dignity--while on the other hand simultaneously bringing into question the very legitimacy of that power. In Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead, James Martel surveys the power of the body left unburied to motivate resistance, to bring forth a radically new form of agency, and to undercut the authority claims made by state power. Ranging across time and space from the battlefields of ancient Thebes to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and taking in perspectives from such writers as Sophocles, Machiavelli, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Thomas Lacqueur, and Bonnie Honig, Martel asks why the presence of the abandoned corpse can be seen by both authorities and protesters as a source of power, and how those who have been abandoned or marginalized by structures of authority can find in a lifeless body fellow accomplices in their aspirations for dignity and humanity.
Society & culture: general --- Dead --- Death --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Philosophy
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Archives --- Memorialization --- Dead --- Political aspects. --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Memorialisation --- Memorials --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Manuscripts --- Documentation --- History --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Public records --- Depositories --- Repositories
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Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. This work presents a ground-breaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Through a range of international case studies across multiple continents, it explores the effect of dead bodies or body parts on various political, cultural and religious practices. Multidisciplinary in scope, it will appeal to readers interested in this crucial phase of post-conflict reconciliation, including students and researchers of history, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, law, politics and modern warfare.
Human remains (Archaeology) --- Dead --- Victims of violent crimes. --- Genocide --- Social aspects. --- Sociological aspects. --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Sociology of genocide --- Sociology --- Victims of violence --- Victims of crimes --- Violent crimes --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Bioarchaeology --- Anthropology --- Archaeology --- War Crimes --- death --- exhumation --- human remains --- post-conflict --- modern warfare --- mass violence --- burial --- violence --- forensics --- Alsace --- Cadaver --- Germany --- Herero people --- Nazism --- The Holocaust
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Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval SwitzerlandHow were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the Middle Ages? Based on intertextual relations between necrologies, rent-rolls, and chronicles from Swiss regions, this study shows how commemorating the dead required new techniques of writing that were not only meant to promote salvation, but also helped enforce local lordship. By celebrating the anniversaries of battles and other crucial events, the authorities of the Swiss cantons propagated a historical concept of identity which continues to influence Switzerland's self-perception even today. Rainer Hugener emphasizes the role of religious commemoration for the development of "modern" bureaucracy and offers a new perspective on the founding myths of the Swiss Con-federacy. The book is completed by an exhaustive catalogue of more than 1000 pre-modern necrologies from Swiss monasteries, cathedrals, collegiate and parish churches.
Dead --- Obituaries --- Prayers for the dead --- Necrologies --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- Dead, Prayers for the --- Poor souls in purgatory, Prayers for the --- Praying for the dead --- Newspapers --- Biography --- Death notices --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Deaths, Registers of --- Registers of deaths --- Church records and registers --- History --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church. --- Sections, columns, etc. --- Catholic Church --- commemorating the dead --- necrologies --- development of bureaucracy --- Bern --- Jahrzeit --- Jahrzeitbuch --- Memorialwesen --- Nekrolog --- Urbar (Verzeichnis)
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Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objectify the person are challenged. Contemporary political systems treat persons instrumentally, as objects to be administered rather than as singular beings: the apparatus of government recognizes categories, not people. In contrast, relatives of the missing demand that authorities focus on a particular person: families and friends are looking for someone who to them is unique and irreplaceable.In Missing, Jenny Edkins highlights stories from a range of circumstances that shed light on this critical tension: the aftermath of World War II, when millions in Europe were displaced; the period following the fall of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan in 2001 and the bombings in London in 2005; searches for military personnel missing in action; the thousands of political "disappearances" in Latin America; and in more "idian circumstances where people walk out on their families and disappear of their own volition. When someone goes missing we often find that we didn't know them as well as we thought: there is a sense in which we are "missing" even to our nearest and dearest and even when we are present, not absent. In this thought-provoking book, Edkins investigates what this more profound "missingness" might mean in political terms.
Disappeared persons --- Missing in action --- Dead --- Mass casualties --- Missing persons --- Desaparecidos --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism --- MIAs (Missing in action) --- Servicemen missing in action --- Battle casualties --- Prisoners of war --- Soldiers --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Casualties, Disaster --- Casualties, Mass --- Disaster casualties --- Fatalities, Mass --- Mass fatalities --- Civil defense --- Medical emergencies --- Medicine, Military --- Wounds and injuries --- Persons --- Identification --- Political aspects. --- 857 Oorlogsslachtoffers --- 866 Herdenking en herinnering --- Identification&delete& --- Political aspects
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Depuis les premières fouilles de la nécropole tumulaire de Vergina dans les années 1950, nos connaissances sur les pratiques funéraires de l'âge du Fer en Grèce du Nord se sont profondément renouvelées. Si le tertre collectif demeure un trait caractéristique majeur, les nombreuses découvertes faites depuis une trentaine d'années témoignent en réalité d'une richesse et d'une grande diversité de pratiques et de types de tombes dans cette vaste région située entre les Balkans et l'Égée. À partir d'un catalogue de nécropoles datées entre le XIe et le VIIe siècle a.C., situées entre le versant oriental du Pinde et les Rhodopes sud-occidentaux, cet ouvrage propose un état de la question des modes funéraires tout en interrogeant cette diversité particulièrement remarquable. Ce travail permet d'établir une carte funéraire complexe qui sera comparée avec le mobilier abordé sous l'angle des thématiques et des idéologies funéraires dont la logique spatiale est différente.
History --- archéologie --- pratiques funéraires --- âge du Fer --- nécropoles --- tumulus --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric --- Grave goods --- Iron age --- Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric. --- Grave goods. --- Antiquities. --- Archaeology. --- Burial. --- Civilization. --- Coffins. --- Dead. --- Funeral decorations. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Grave digging. --- Iron age. --- Manners and customs. --- Public health. --- Macedonia (Greece) --- Greece --- Greece. --- France --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Digging graves --- Gravedigging --- Burial --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Funerary decorations --- Decoration and ornament --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Corpse removals --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Obituaries --- Caskets (Coffins) --- Boxes --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Antiquities --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Burial goods --- Burial objects --- Grave objects --- Ceremonial objects --- Prehistoric rites and ceremonies --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Farans --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant͡ --- Frant͡s Uls --- Frant͡sii͡ --- Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika --- Frantsyi͡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangs --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Aegean Macedonia (Greece) --- Greek Macedonia (Greece) --- Makedhonía (Greece) --- Makedonia (Greece) --- Makedoniya (Greece)
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