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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.

Mass murder investigation. --- Mass burials. --- Forensic pathology. --- Pathology, Forensic --- Medical jurisprudence --- Pathology --- Coroners --- Medical examiners (Law) --- Mass graves --- Burial --- Murder --- Investigation --- Sociology --- Human Remains --- Ethics --- Genocide --- Violence --- Methodology --- Biopolitics --- Riot --- Ustashe

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Funde --- Ausgrabung --- Schlachtfeld --- Military archaeology --- Mass burials --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Bronze age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Civilization --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Mass graves --- Burial --- Archaeology of conflict --- Archaeology of war --- Battlefield archaeology --- Bunker archaeology --- Combat archaeology --- Conflict archaeology --- Archaeology --- Congresses --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Antiquities, Roman --- Congresses. --- Schlachtfeld. --- Funde. --- Ausgrabung. --- Bioarchaeology

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The Battle of Towton in North Yorkshire, fought during the Wars of the Roses, was reputedly the bloodiest battle ever seen on English soil. In 1996 a mass grave of soldiers was discovered there by chance. This was the catalyst for a multidisciplinary research project, still unique in Britain ten years after the initial discovery, which included a study of the skeletal remains, the battlefield landscape, the historical evidence and contemporary arms and armour. The discoveries were dramatic and moving; the individuals had clearly suffered traumatic deaths and subsequent research highlighted the often multiple wounds each individual had received before and, in some cases, after they had died. As well as the exciting forensic work the project also revealed much about medieval weaponry and fighting. Blood Red Roses contains all the information about this fascinating discovery, as well as discussing its wider historical, heritage and archaeological implications. The second edition features new chapters by a re-enactor and a history teacher, which apply the research from the initial study to produce a veritable 'living history'

Towton, Battle of, Towton, England, 1461. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Mass burials --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Towton (England), Battle of, 1461 --- Mass graves --- Burial --- Towton (England) --- Antiquities. --- Towton, Battle of, Towton, England, 1461 --- Antiquities --- Excavations (Archaeology) - England - Towton --- Mass burials - England - Towton --- Towton (England) - Antiquities

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On 17 March 2000 several hundred members of a charismatic Christian sect, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC), burnt to death in the group's headquarters in the Southwest Ugandan village of Kanungu. Days later the Ugandan police discovered a series of mass graves containing over 400 bodies on various other properties belonging to the sect. Was this mass suicide or mass murder? The question of whether Kanungu is best understood as mass suicide or multiple murder is more than just an intriguing detective story: it goes to the heart of how the event should be perceived and understood in both religious and social terms. Based on eight years of historical and ethnographic research, 'Ghosts of Kanungu' provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the MRTC and of the events leading up to the inferno. It argues that none of these events can be understood without reference to a broader social history of Southwestern Uganda during the twentieth century, in which anti-colonial movements, Catholic White Fathers missionaries, colonial relocation schemes, the breakdown of the Ugandan state, post-war reconstruction, the onset of HIV/AIDS, and the transformation of the regional Nyabingi fertility cult into a Marian church with worldwide connections, all played their part. The themes of this book were presented by the author when he gave the Evans-Pritchard lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. RICHARD VOKES is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Uganda: Fountain Publishers (PB).

Fire investigation --- Fires --- Mass burials --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Mass graves --- Burial --- Buildings --- Conflagrations --- Fire losses --- Accidents --- Disasters --- Fire --- Investigations --- Casualties --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Fires and fire prevention --- Investigation --- Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. --- Kanungu Cult --- Kanungu (Uganda) --- Social conditions --- Ghosts of Kanungu. --- Great Lakes. --- Mass Murder. --- Mass Suicide. --- Nyabingi Fertility Cult. --- Richard Vokes. --- Rwanda. --- Secrecy. --- Southwestern Uganda. --- Uganda. --- Violence.

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This text 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.

Mass burials --- Genocide --- Mass murder --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- War Crimes --- Killing --- Wrongful Death --- Death, Wrongful --- Deaths, Wrongful --- Homicides --- Killings --- Murders --- Wrongful Deaths --- Crime, War --- Crimes, War --- War Crime --- Aspects, Historical --- Historical Aspects --- Aspect, Historical --- Historical Aspect --- Problem, Social --- Problems, Social --- Social Problem --- Multicide --- Murder, Mass --- Mass graves --- Mass burials. --- Genocide. --- Mass murder. --- Murder --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Burial --- Homicide --- War Crimes. --- history. --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- History --- Human remains --- Ethics --- Violence --- Destruction --- Exhumation --- Auschwitz concentration camp --- Cremation --- Serbs