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Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Exhumation --- Exhumation --- Funérailles --- Funérailles --- Exhumation --- Exhumation --- Rites et cérémonies --- Rites et cérémonies

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The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mourning. Like silent testimonies to the wounds of history, these graves continue to inflict harm on communities and families that wish to bury or memorialize their lost kin. Changing political circumstances can reveal the location of mass graves or facilitate their exhumation, but the challenge of identifying and recovering the dead is only the beginning of a complex process that brings the rights and wishes of a bereaved society onto a transnational stage. This book examines the political and social implications of this sensitive undertaking in specific local and national contexts. International forensic methods, local-level claims, national political developments, and transnational human rights discourse converge in detailed case studies from the United States, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Korea. Contributors analyze the role of exhumations in transitional justice from the steps of interviewing eyewitnesses and survivors to the painstaking forensic recovery and comparison of DNA profiles. This innovative volume demonstrates that contemporary exhumations are as much a source of personal, historical, and criminal evidence as instruments of redress for victims through legal accountability and memory politics.

EXHUMATION--CASE STUDIES --- MASS BURIALS--CASE STUDIES --- FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY--CASE STUDIES --- WAR VICTIMS --- CIVILIAN WAR CASUALTIES

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Droit funéraire --- Exhumation --- Possession (droit) --- Successions et héritages --- Violations de sépultures

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Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of the disappeared during the 1980s and 1900s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. It focuses on the ways elderly Quechua mothers engage forensic exhumations of mass graves as part of their longtime struggle in search for their missing kin. Of the estimated 16,000 Peruvians disappeared, by mid-2016 only the bodies of 3,202 victims had been located, and only 1,833 identified. The rest remain unknown or unfound, scattered across the country and often shattered beyond recognition. Isaias Rojas-Perez examines how, in the face of the state's failure to account for their missing dead, the mothers rearrange senses of community, belonging, authority, and the human to bring the disappeared back into being through everyday practices of mourning and memorialization. Mourning Remains reveals how this collective mourning unsettles, and becomes an alternative to, the state's project of securing the future of the body politic by means of governing past atrocity. Book jacket.

Disappeared persons --- Disappeared persons' families --- Quechua Indians --- State-sponsored terrorism --- Exhumation --- Transitional justice --- Crimes against --- Political aspects

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Early modern English literature abounds with archaeological images, from open graves to ruined monasteries. Schwyzer demonstrates that archaeology can shed light on literary texts including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne. The book also explores the kinship between two disciplines distinguished by their intimacy with the traces of past life. - ;This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary te

English literature --- Archaeology in literature. --- Dead in literature. --- Ruins in literature. --- Antiquities in literature. --- Exhumation. --- Disinterment --- Autopsy --- Burial --- History and criticism.