Exhumations in Latin America

Guest Editor : Pamela Colombo

Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a biannual, peer-reviewed publication which draws together the different strands of academic research on the dead body and the production of human remains en masse, whether in the context of mass violence, genocidal occurrences or environmental disasters. Inherently interdisciplinary, the journal publishes papers from a range of academic disciplines within the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Human Remains and Violence invites contributions from scholars working in a variety of fields and interdisciplinary research is especially welcome.

Human Remains and Violence was created thanks to funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n° 283-617.

Table of Contents

• Editorial - Pamela Colombo

• Honouring, commemorating, compensating: state and civil society in response to victims of the armed conflict in the Ixil region (Guatemala) - Clara Duterme

• Among bodies: reflections on ethnographic work and the repercussions of exhumations and identifications of the disappeared of the last military dictatorship in Argentina - Laura Panizo

• Restoring the dignity of the war's disappeared? Exhumations of mass graves, restorative justice and compassion policies in Peru - Valérie Robin Azevedo

• Forensic excavations and burials in Uruguay, 2004–10 - Jose López Mazz

• Murderous returns: armed violence, suicide and exhumation in the Emberá Katío economy of death (Chocó and Antioquia, Colombia) - Anne-Marie Losonczy