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accountability
armed conflict
Author_Sarah Wagner
bosnia
bosniak
bosnian muslim
bosnian war
breakup of yugoslavia
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ethnicity cleansing
europe
genetic technology
genocide
herzegovina
identification
imagination
islam
meaning of absence
memory
personalized loss
political leadership
postwar bosnian society
postwar srebrenica
potocari
safe area
science
social repair
socialist federal republic of yugoslavia
srebrenica
technology of repair
unmarked mass graves
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780520255753
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. "To Know Where He Lies" provides a powerful account of the innovative genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science come together to recover identities lost to genocide. Sarah E. Wagner explores technology's import across several areas of postwar Bosnian society - for families of the missing, the Srebrenica community, the Bosnian political leadership (including Serb and Muslim), and international aims of social repair - probing the meaning of absence itself.
Sarah E. Wagner is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
