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Human Remains in Society Ii i Human remains in society ii HUMAN REMAINS AND VIOLENCE Human remains and violence aims to question the social legacy of mass violence by studying how different societies have coped with the dead bodies resulting from war, genocide and state sponsored brutality. However, rather paradoxically, given the large volume of work devoted to the body on the one hand, and to mass violence on the other, the question of the body in the context of mass violence remains a largely unexplored area and even an academic blind spot. Interdisciplinary in nature, Human remains and violence intends to show how various social and cultural treatments of the dead body simultaneously challenge common representations, legal prac- tices and morality. This series aims to provide proper intellectual and theoretical tools for a better understanding of mass violence’s aftermaths. Series editors Élisabeth Anstett and Jean- Marc Dreyfus ALSO AVAILABLE IN THIS SERIES Destruction and human remains: disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence Edited by Élisabeth Anstett and Jean- Marc Dreyfus Human remains and mass violence: methodological approaches Edited by Jean- Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Anstett Governing the dead: sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies Finn Stepputat iii Human remains in society Curation and exhibition in the aftermath of genocide and mass-violence Edited by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Anstett Manchester University Press iv Copyright © Manchester University Press 2016 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 5261 0738 1 hardback ISBN 978 1 5261 2933 8 open access First published 2016 This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence. A copy of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. v Contents List of figures page vii List of contributors viii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction. Corpses in society: about human remains, necro- politics, necro- economy and the legacy of mass violence 1 Élisabeth Anstett and Jean- Marc Dreyfus 1 The unburied victims of Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion: where and when does the violence end? 14 David M. Anderson and Paul J. Lane 2 (Re)politicising the dead in post- Holocaust Poland: the afterlives of human remains at the Bełz>ec extermination camp 38 Zuzanna Dziuban 3 Chained corpses: warfare, politics and religion after the Habsburg Empire in the Julian March, 1930s– 1970s 66 Gaetano Dato 4 Exhumations in post- war rabbinical responsas 90 David Deutsch vi vi Contents 5 (Re)cognising the corpse: individuality, identification and multidirectional memorialisation in post- genocide Rwanda 113 Ayala Maurer- Prager 6 Corpses of atonement: the discovery, commemoration and reinterment of eleven Alsatian victims of Nazi terror, 1947– 52 139 Devlin M. Scofield 7 ‘Earth conceal not my blood’: forensic and archaeological approaches to locating the remains of Holocaust victims 163 Caroline Sturdy Colls 8 The return of Herero and Nama bones from Germany: the victims’ struggle for recognition and recurring genocide memories in Namibia 197 Vilho Amukwaya Shigwedha 9 A Beothuk skeleton (not) in a glass case: rumours of bones and the remembrance of an exterminated people in Newfoundland – the emotive immateriality of human remains 220 John Harries Index 249 vii Figures 2.1 Museum– Memorial site at Bełzec> (photo: Zuzanna Dziuban) page 51 3.1 Northern Adriatic region, 1939 (from Franco Cecotti, Il tempo dei confini: Atlante storico dell’Adriatico nord- orientale nel contesto europeo e mediterraneo, 1748– 2008 (Trieste: Irsml FVG, 2011), reproduced by permission of Franco Cecotti) 70 3.2 Cover of Le macabre foibe istriane, a Nazi– Fascist booklet printed in 1944 74 7.1 Location of the extermination and labour camps at Treblinka (photo: Caroline Sturdy Colls) 172 7.2 Some of the personal items unearthed during excavations in the area of the Old Gas Chambers at Treblinka that survive as a testament to the individuals who were sent there (photo: Staffordshire University, Centre of Archaeology) 185 viii Contributors David M. Anderson is Professor of African History in the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, having previously taught at the University of Oxford, SOAS London and Birkbeck London, and held visiting positions at Princeton University and the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on the history and politics of Eastern Africa, including Histories of the Hanged (2005), The Khat Controversy (2007), The Routledge Handbook of African Politics (2013) and Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa: The Struggles of Emerging States (2015). He was the founding editor of the Journal of Eastern African Studies, inaugu- rated in 2007. His recent research focuses on violence, securitisation and insurgency in Africa. Élisabeth Anstett is a social anthropologist, a permanent research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Her area of expertise covers Russia and Belarus, on which she has published extensively. Her recent works deal with the social impact of mass exhumations and more broadly with the social and cultural legacy of genocide and mass violence in Europe. With his- torian Jean- Marc Dreyfus, she is the editor of the ‘Human Remains and Violence’ book series at Manchester University Press, and is one of three general editors of the interdisciplinary journal Human Remains and Violence, also with MUP. ix List of contributors ix Gaetano Dato is a research fellow at the University of Trieste. His last book, Redipuglia: Il Sacrario e la Memoria della Grande Guerra, 1938– 1993 [Redipuglia: The Shrine and the Memory of the Great War], was published in 2015; it concerns the most prominent Italian First World War site of memory. He received his PhD in History from the University of Trieste in April 2013. His research concerns the interpretation and representation of the world wars’ history, as it emerged in Trieste’s multi- ethnic area through its main sites of memory. His thesis was awarded the Slori award for PhD disser- tation by the Slo.venian Research Institute in September 2013, and by the Republic of Slovenia – Office for Slovenians Abroad in May 2014. He is a member of the Risiera di San Sabba museum board and has held several posts in Public History since 2008. He has written for a number of journals including Acta Histriae, Memoria e Ricerca, West Croatian History Journal and Southeastern Europe. David Deutsch, holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, sup- press. The research analysed the rhetoric of genocidal discourse as a form of intimate violence under Nazi rule. The thesis and associated research was awarded the Dean’s Prize from Ben- Gurion University and also received a Yad Vashem Award. Among his published papers are the following: ‘The Politics of Intimacy’,Journal of Genocide Research (2016), and ‘Immer mit Liebe’, Holocaust Studies: Journal of Culture and History (2016). In addition to his thesis research, David has been working as an educator, implementing and promoting Holocaust and genocide studies at the Yad Vashem Institute, Ben Gurion University and in several local colleges. Jean- Marc Dreyfus is Reader in History and in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He was a post- doctoral fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard and the Centre Marc- Bloch in Berlin. He is the author of five books, includ- ing L’impossible réparation: déportés, biens spoliés, or nazi, comptes bloqués, criminels de guerre [The Impossible Reparation: Deportees, Looted Properties, Nazi Gold, War Criminals] (Paris: Flammarion, 2015). He has recently edited a special issue of the European Review of History, on ‘Traces, Memory and the Holocaust in the Writings of W. G. Sebald’. He was the co-organiser (with Élisabeth Anstett) of the ERC research programme ‘Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide’ (www.corpsesofmassviolence.eu) (2012– 16). x x List of contributors Zuzanna Dziuban holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, where she also completed a masters in Cultural Studies and studied Philosophy. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Konstanz (in the ‘Geschichte & Gedächtnis’ research group), at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). Currently, she is a DAAD/ Marie- Curie research fellow at the University of Konstanz and visiting researcher at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam. Her current research focuses on the material, poli- tical and affective afterlives of the former Nazi extermination camps in Poland and post- Holocaust politics of dead bodies. She is the author of monographs Foreignness, Homelessness, Loss: Dimensions of Atopia of the Contemporary Cultural Experience (2009, in Polish) and the forthcoming The ‘Spectral Turn’: Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Cultural Imaginaire. John Harries received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. Since then he has held tea- ching posts at the Crichton Campus of the University of Glasgow in Dumfries, the Centre of Canadian Studies and the School of Health and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh and, since September 2013, is a teaching fellow in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science.
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