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Dorothée Delacroix et al., « Introduction. "Le cadavre et ses avatars." », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.61c033...
Le cadavre et ses avatars aims to shed light on the way in which the symbolic and material existence of human remains is recomposed in a post-conflict context. The study of the mobility of these remains in multiple time-spaces and the variety of forms that are assigned to them (saints, souls, ghosts, objects of forensic investigations, wastes or names without a body, taken from archives) invites a comparative approach that brings together ethnographies of Latin American and European contexts, where the funerary universe is each time marked by the combined imprint of Christianity and common practices. The six chapters of this volume extend the achievements of a cultural anthropology of death and mourning, putting them into perspective with a political anthropology, in order to shed light on the posterity of violent death in a post-conflict context. The book thus provides the sometimes antagonistic issues that oppose local memorial and ritual inventions to standardised and globalised legal protocols or forensic techniques when it comes to dealing with human remains from massacres.