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Por sus obras los conoceréis. Documentos de perpetrador y voces de víctimas en Retratos de identificação (Anita Leandro, 2014)
2021
espanolEn los ultimos anos, el estudio de los perpetradores de violencia de masas ha crecido sustancialmente en publicaciones academicas, museos, memorias y cobertura mediatica. Lo ha hecho cada vez con menos dependencia respecto a los influyentes y muy avanzados Holocaust Studies. Ademas, los horizontes de la investigacion se han ampliado desde las personalidades y la maquinaria de destruccion al estudio mas cercano de los documentos, objetos y mirada de los perpetradores. Es en este dominio donde se inscribe un film como Retratos de identificacao de Anita Leandro (2014), film que, nacido de la investigacion historica, se propone reescribir mediante el uso de la composicion y el montaje lo…
Reflections on the Significance of Images in Genocide Studies: Some Methodological Considerations
2018
Social practices such as massacres, mass violence and the extermination of entire populations are not a historical novelty. Indeed, when Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1944 he was but giving a new name to an old crime.1 Such phenomena have been witnessed by humanity since Ancient times and historians, as well as artists and writers, have utilized every tool at their disposal to find ways to depict them and impress upon their audience the impact they had. Insofar as these are extreme phenomena that challenge the very notion of our humanity, such events inevitably test as well the limits of representation. Eyewitness accounts, historical narrations, philosophical observations, and…
The massacre mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals new insights into collective violence in Early Neolithic Central Europe
2015
Conflict and warfare are central but also disputed themes in discussions about the European Neolithic. Although a few recent population studies provide broad overviews, only a very limited number of currently known key sites provide precise insights into moments of extreme and mass violence and their impact on Neolithic societies. The massacre sites of Talheim, Germany, and Asparn/Schletz, Austria, have long been the focal points around which hypotheses concerning a final lethal crisis of the first Central European farmers of the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK) have concentrated. With the recently examined LBK mass grave site of Schöneck-Kilianstädten, Germany, we present ne…