Undressing Corpses – An Archaeological Perspective on State Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9286015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcia Lika Hattori (0000-0001-7299-5877, Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2051-3429 • E-ISSN: 2051-3437 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jca.41494 |
| OpenAlex | W3026483138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article explores the disappearance of bodies within the bureaucracy of death in Brazil, including a focus on complicity between the apparatus of repression during the military period and norms of public administration, which aimed to give a veneer of “legality” in cases of disappearance within state institutions. The bureaucracy of death undresses bodies and depersonalizes them, and lack of care over recording details can be a strategy to deny the dead body of an undesirable or unknown person an identity. Making use of autopsy reports for unidentified bodies in São Paulo in the 1970s as an analytical category, I demonstrate how an archaeological perspective can show how a “state of exception” operates on such individuals; in particular, I show how the presence or absence of details about clothing is a significant factor in depersonalization
Aesthetics · Art · Bureaucracy · Complicity · Criminology · Depersonalization · Focus (optics · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Principle of legality · Sociology · State (computer science · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |