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Governing the dead in Guatemala : public authority and dead bodies / Finn Stepputat -- Evolving mortuary rituals in contemporary Japan / Yohko Tsuji -- Revealing brands, concealing labor / George Sanders -- Playing with corpses : assembling bodies for the dead in southwest China / Erik Mueggler -- Death and separation in post-conflict Timor-Leste / Judith Bovensiepen -- Migration, death, and conspicuous redistribution in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- After death : event, marrative, feeling / Michael Lambek --Reflections on the work of recovery I and II / Beth A. Conklin -- The pursuit of sorrow and the ethics of crying / Oliver Allard -- Mourning as mutuality Jason Danely -- A comparative study of Jewish-Israeli and Buddhist-Khmer trauma descendant discontinued bonds with the genocide dead / Carol A. Kidron -- Facing death : on nourning, empathy and finitude / Devin Flaherty and C. Jason Throop -- What is a mass grave? : toward an anthropology of human remains treatment in contemporary contests of mass violence / Isabeth Anstett -- Death on the move : pantheons and reburials in Spanish Civil War exhumations / Francisco Ferrandiz -- Accountability for mass death, acts of rescue and silence in Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet -- Impassable visions : the Cambodia to come, the detritus in its wake / Hudson McFann and Alexander Laban Hinton -- Experience, empathy, and flexibility : on participant observation in deadly fields / Ivana Macek -- Learning how to die / Robert Desjarlais -- Whirlpools, glitter and ferocious intruders : the palpability of death in Chachi animism / Istvan Praet -- Shamanic rebirth and the paradox of disremembering the dead among Mapuche in Chile / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo -- After death communications (ADCs) : signs from the other world in contemporary North America / Ellen Badone -- Cryonic suspension as eschatological technology in the secular age / Abou Farman -- From here and to death : the archaeology of the human body / Liv Nilsson Stutz -- Death, corporeality and uncertainty in Zimbabwe / Joost Fontein -- Death, power, and silence : Native Nations' ancestral remains at the Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania / Jacqueline Fear-Segal -- In the absence of a corpse : rituals for body donors in the Netherlands / Sophie Bolt -- Death as spectacle : plastinated bodies in Germany / Uli Linke -- The body as medicine : blood and organ donation in China / Charlotte Ikels -- Ethical dilemmas in the field : witchcraft and biomedical aetiology in South Africa / Isak Niehaus -- The disappearance of dying and why it matters / Helen Stanton Chapple -- The fragility of biomedicine : death, detachment and moral dilemmas of care in a Kenyan hospital / Ruth J. Prince -- The new normal : mediated death and assisted dying in the United States / Frances Norwood

Klappentext: To some he was a Robin Hood, a mythic figure of righteous retribution. To others he was the devil incarnate, a bloodthirsty hooligan and cold-blooded killer. The disparity between these views of the outlaw Jesse James is often attributed to an almost invisible line between marauding Missouri guerrilla bands of the Civil War and the general lawlessness that plagued the Old West. The beginning of the legend of the James brothers, which began in 1866 - the first successful peacetime daylight bank robbery - is somewhat murky. But once their careers in crime commenced, the James brothers eluded capture for sixteen years, until Jesse was killed in 1882 by Bob and Charlie Ford while the three of them planned the robbery of the Platte City Bank. Frank was never apprehended but surrendered voluntarily to the governor of Missouri. Since then the exploits of the James gang have become legendary. Frank and Jesse James is a complete account of the James brothers during the Civil War, the following sixteen years of notoriety, and the lives of those who outlived Jesse. Yeatman has created a thoroughly documented popular narrative. Also included are dozens of heretofore unpublished illustrations and photographs of the people, places, and artifacts associated with the notorious brothers. Ted Yeatman began researching this book twenty-five years ago, reviewing materials in Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Minnesota, Illinois, and the District of Columbia. He discovered items that had never been published, particularly a cache of Pinkerton letters concerning the firebombing of the James farm in 1875 (somewhat analogous to the FBI's role in the Branch Davidian crisis near Waco, Texas, in 1993) and heretofore overlooked papers in the National Archives regarding the Civil War activities and later banditry of the James brothers. Yeatman also assisted in the 1995 exhumation and forensic examination of the remains of Jesse. The result is a complete account of the James brothers during the Civil War, the following sixteen years of notoriety, and the lives of those who outlived Jesse. Yeatman has created a thoroughly documented popular narrative that will be satisfying both to readers who know little or nothing about the James brothers and those who have read everything. Also included are dozens of heretofore unpublished illustrations and photographs of the people, places, and artifacts associated with the notorious brothers.

In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not only funerary rituals and intergenerational engagement with forebears, but also concerns encounters with the dead who died centuries and millennia ago. Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships. Until quite recently, literary sciences and archaeology were generally regarded as incommensurable in their aims, methodologies, and source material. Although archaeologists and literary critics have been increasingly willing to borrow concepts and terminology from the other discipline, this book is one examples of a genuinely collaborative endeavor. This is an open access book.

Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.