Interpreters of the Dead
Forensic Knowledge, Human Remains and the Politics of the Past
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7098079 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Catherine Moon (0000-0003-2884-7687, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor correspondente), Claire Moon (London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Ano | 2013 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 149-169 |
| Data de publicação | 2013-01-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Social & Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0964663912463724 |
| OpenAlex | W2133530834 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 26 |
| Referências citadas | 16 |
Forensic anthropology makes particular professional claims – scientific, probative, humanitarian, historical, political and deterrent – which attempt to finalise interpretations of the past. However, I argue that these claims conceal a range of contests and conflicts around the social, political, legal and scientific significance of human remains. I look at the ways in which forensic work is embedded within a network of artefacts, actors and institutions that have different stakes in the interpretation of the past. I analyse conflicts over human remains by positing them as ‘boundary objects’ with agency, in which a number of communities are invested and show how forensic knowledge does not finalise, but interacts with social, political and historical interpretations of past violence in ways that are both conflicted and unpredictable
Agency (philosophy · Boundary-work · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Interpreter · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeological Research and Protection · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society
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Sepur Zarco, Guatemala
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Transitional Justice ‘From Within’
Presenting unwieldy pasts
The reemergence of the disappeared, the role of remains and the forensic gaze
Social networks and the dead
Proof of life
Transformations and transitions
The emotional management of death and absence by forensic anthropologists in Colombia and Peru
Unsettling forensics
The stories bones tell. Collaboration between forensic teams and victims’ relatives in the interpretation and ritual accompaniment of human remains in Guatemala
The archaeology of post-medieval death and burial
Unrecovered objects
Necroscapes
Notas forenses
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Ethical Controversies of Familial Searching
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Kinship across conflict
Wartime burial from below
Unclaimed and unclaimable deaths
Pure Corpses, Dangerous Citizens
Science in action
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The political lives of dead bodies
Notes on the theory of the actor-network
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| Obras citantes distintas | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 2,17 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 25 |