The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Mass burial
Anstett, É. 2015
‘An anthropological approach to human remains from the gulags’, in J-M Dreyfus & É Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 181-198.
Anstett, É. 2022
‘Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Death Studies, 47:6, 666-678.
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Anstett, É. 2018
‘What is a mass grave? toward an anthropology of human remains treatment in contemporary contexts of mass violence’, in A. Robben (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, John Wiley & Sons, 175-188.
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Anstett, É. & Dreyfus, J-M. 2015
‘Introduction. Corpses and mass violence: an inventory of the unthinkable’, in J-M Dreyfus & É Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1-11.
Avezedo, V. 2021
‘From dignified burial to “terrorist mausoleum”: exhumation, moral panic and mourning policies in Peru’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 40:1, 21-39.
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Azevedo, V. 2016
‘Restoring the dignity of the war’s disappeared? Exhumations of mass graves, restorative justice and compassion policies in Peru’, Human Remains and Violence, 2:2, 39-55.
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Barkey, N. 2008
‘Building peace in Angola: the role of the exhumation process in Kuito’ Human Organization, 67:2, 164-172.
Bejyera, E. 2014
‘The contribution of mass graves to transitional justice: the case of Chbondo in Mt Darwin Zimbabwe’, International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 4:1, 47-56.
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Black, M. 2008
‘Reburying and rebuilding: reflecting on proper burial in Berlin after “Zero Hour”’, in A. Confino, P. Betts & D. Schumann (eds) Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 69-90.
Briest, S. 2022
‘“The graves when they open, will be witnesses against thee”: mass burial and the agency of the dead in Thomas Dekker’s Plague Pamphlets’, in E. Weiss-Krejci, S. Becker and P. Schwyzer (eds) Interdisciplinary Exploration of Postmortem Interaction: Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces through Texts and Time, New York: Cham: Springer, 249-268.
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Castex, D. & Kacki, S. 2022
‘“Bring out your dead”: funerary and public health practices in times of epidemic disease’ in C. Knüsel & E. Schotsmans (eds) Routledge Handbook of Archeothanatology, Routledge, 331-252.
Cohn Jn, S. 2000
‘The place of the dead in Flanders and Tuscany: towards a comparative history of the Black Death’, in B. Gordon & P. Marshall (eds) The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 17-43.
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Eltringham, N. 2015
‘Display, concealment and “culture”: the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide’, in J-M. Dreyfus & É. Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 161-180.
Ferllini, R. & Croft, A. 2009
‘The Case of an Armenian mass grave’, Journal of Human Rights, 8:3.
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Ferrándiz, F. 2018
‘Death on the move: pantheons and reburials in Spanish Civil War exhumations’, in A. Robben (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of Death, John Wiley & Sons, 189-204.
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Ferrándiz, F. 2006
‘The return of Civil War ghosts: the ethnography of exhumations in contemporary Spain’, Anthropology Today, 22:3, 7-12
Ferrándiz, F. & Robben, A. 2015
Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights, Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania Press.
Hanson, I. 2023
‘Mass graves: the forensic investigation of the deaths, destruction and deletion of communities and their heritage’, The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice, 14:3, 359-401.
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Killoran, P., Pollack, D., Nealis, S. & Rinker, E. 2015
‘Cemetery preservation and beautification of death: investigations of unmarked early to mid-nineteenth-century burial grounds in Central Kentucky’, in A. Osterholtz (ed.) Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains, Cham: Springer, 219-241.
Korb, A. 2017
‘The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war: Croatia, 1941-45′, in J-M Dreyfus. & É. Anstett (eds) Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 106-128.
