Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions
Holocaust studies was initially the purview of historians, who, poring over millions of pages of German documentation, were the first to try to reach a broader understanding of how and why the Holocaust occurred. The Holocaust is far too complex an atrocity for one discipline to comprehend, however,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 481-483 |
| Review of: | Holocaust archaeologies (Cham : Springer, 2015) (Ehrenreich, Robert M.)
Holocaust archaeologies (Cham : Springer, 2015) (Ehrenreich, Robert M.) |
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| Summary: | Holocaust studies was initially the purview of historians, who, poring over millions of pages of German documentation, were the first to try to reach a broader understanding of how and why the Holocaust occurred. The Holocaust is far too complex an atrocity for one discipline to comprehend, however, and successive areas of study have entered the field: literature, psychology, sociology, Jewish studies, and geography, to name just a few. What tends to be forgotten is that archaeology has been involved since the immediate postwar period. As Caroline Sturdy Colls notes in her impressive new volume, the roots of forensic archaeology are traceable to the collection of evidence—from thousands of mass graves—for use in post-Holocaust trials (p. 29). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv050 |