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. 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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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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Ferrándiz, F. & Robben, A. 2015
Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights, Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania Press.
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.
