... out of exile in Istanbul, where they had lain buried since 1897. The subsequent exhumation, transnational corpse transfer, and reinterment in Kabul provoked the ire of the Iranian state, which contested Afghanistan's claim to be Jamaluddin's natal state. The significance of Jamaluddin's corpse...

... African body, dismantles the depoliticized economy of humanitarian affect, and stresses the need for and possibility of a politics of proximity and complicity. Duke University Press 2008 Global Humanitarianism, Race, and the Spectacle of the African Corpse in Current Western Representations...

...Sabri Ateş This article examines Ottoman responses to Iranians bringing corpses for burial in holy Shi`i sites in Ottoman Iraq, and focuses on questions of sovereignty, frontiers, commerce, and sanitation. Bringing together the Shi`is of both sides of the Ottoman-Iranian frontier, this curious...

... the reception of narratives of pain. Duke University Press 2008 When Wounds and Corpses Fail to Speak: Narratives of Violence and Rape in Congo (DRC...

... of Europe to be laid in ancestral soils in countries of origin. Through interviews with Muslim death-care workers and community members the authors analyze the significance and symbolic value that such posthumous journeys carry in postmigratory settings. They argue that the Muslim corpse embodies a range...

.... This was especially the case for those who did not have family or community ties in the city. This article examines the ritual processes by which corpses were prepared for interment, through washing, shrouding, and burial; how funerals, coffins, tombstones, and graveyards were managed; and how individuals...

... Wê and at the correctional tribunal of Man. corpse or by a mask. Masks are immortal and During my interviews with judges and pub- thus living beings. A mask consists of different lic prosecutors, it appeared that the most diffi - elements: a supranatural...

... violence. Historically, the state has deemed “unidentified” many radical leftists and Kurdish guerrillas killed in various ways and buried as anonymous corpses at the kimsesiz sites, denying families and communities not only the mortal remains but also the certain knowledge of death, a proper grieving...

... of Karbala), as does most of the English- oners passed Husayn’s decapitated corpse. Ibn Tawus, Shi‘i ritual determined by the zodiacal calendar. language scholarship on this topic. Al-luhuf fi qutla al-tufuf, 55, mentions the above ac...

... these dead bodies from our shared cultural memory. Kahlon elaborates on the role of artistic production in highlighting and bridg- ing this gap between the rational medico-­legal entity of the corpse and the spectrality of the absent body. We close with a series of critical reflections...

... to corpses” dedicated been long gaze has the which that implies confessionalism Medical opeadiscue fdaht apn the anticipation mapping her and to subjectivity death patient’s dying of causes its and corpse...

... of forms other and sieges corpses, of disfigurement mutilation, and defilement ex- negotiations, political hostage/prisoner and for change or ransom hos- for taking tages assassinations, targeted finement, incarceration/con- public pain, executions, of of mortification, infliction forms and other torture...

... on? Fireflies? Or the stars shining with no meaning like the light that emits from a corpse’s eye? Truth is not visible in this darkness. To discern untruths is not an easy task. But my younger sister preparing for exams I cannot ask what motivates you why you...

....” 52 Attempts to apprehend the human sometimes fail, so that bones of the desert and the sands are sometimes experienced by those who witness them through multiple conflicting affects of horror, disgust, and reverence. By reducing human bodies to a nonhuman state and by desecrating the corpse...

... - JANET GYATSO Somewhere around 1670, Dar-mo sMan-rams-pa, one Dar-mo’s corpse dismemberment in the Tibetan capital of an inner group of physicians close to the Fifth Dalai encapsulates a climactic moment in the history of medi- Lama, set up a laboratory in a park in Lhasa. He and his cine...

.... These corpses at the moment of death also challenge with the need to recuperate the meaning of labor and lives spent. The note accompanying the portrait of Usman of Ponnani ( fig. 1 ) states: These journeys have also left some deeply etched memories. Once, while on the way from Karnataka to Beypore...

... of the female as static and, in Teresa de and violent subjection, the politics of death and Lauretis’s words, a mere “element of plot-space, corpses in the making of globally “disposable a topos, a resistance, matrix, and matter.”29 In subjects,” the deeply gendered...

... fixed examined Iranian perceptions of the British, in the nineteenth century, thus complicating highlighted by fascination and awe on the one the continuous transfer of corpses from Iran for hand and suspicion and fear on the other. Houri burial in holy Shi’i sites in Ottoman Iraq. Pardis...

..., transcends and reformers noted a further refinement: the wid- barriers of kinship and caste. It is quite likely that ow’s body was placed under the husband’s corpse even local non-­Hindus believed that watching and was then securely tied to it. The ruse or tacti- would give them some merit. At least...

... and enigmatic silences, The rative, as the essays understand it, is both cause the erosion of syntax and the depletion of spec- and symptom of the contemporary crisis of rep- tacle, and the corpses that burden the narrative resentation. The individual essays are subtle and corpus at stake...