2009
DOI: 10.1017/s1380203809002827
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Acts of estrangement. The post-mortem making of self and other

Abstract: Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1380203809002827 How to cite this article: Zoe Crossland (2009). Acts of estrangement. The post-mortem making of self and other. AbstractThe histories of post-mortem intervention in 18th-and 19th-century Britain illustrate how the relationships within which the dead were located affected their postmortem treatment and were reproduced through it. This paper explores how traditions of marking social distinctions among the dead have been incorporated i… Show more

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“…Critics of the anatomy laws that were passed beginning in the 1830s articulated grave robbing and the dissection as a violation of the integrity of the private interior of the body and linked it with rape, sodomy, necrophilia, and satanism (Sappol ). Again, the articulation of these negative associations suggests that the body was not just a container for the spirit and that after death it could still “experience” such violent violations, and this reflects “a submerged and unacknowledged recognition of the continuing presence of the deceased” (Crossland :110).…”
Section: Structural Violencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Critics of the anatomy laws that were passed beginning in the 1830s articulated grave robbing and the dissection as a violation of the integrity of the private interior of the body and linked it with rape, sodomy, necrophilia, and satanism (Sappol ). Again, the articulation of these negative associations suggests that the body was not just a container for the spirit and that after death it could still “experience” such violent violations, and this reflects “a submerged and unacknowledged recognition of the continuing presence of the deceased” (Crossland :110).…”
Section: Structural Violencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…During the 18th and 19th centuries, dissection was widely regarded as a violation of the body and was generally punitive in nature. While it stripped the individual of their social identity and transformed the body into an object, it simultaneously reinforced a living social identity (Crossland ). In contrast, the same stigma was not associated with autopsies.…”
Section: Dissection As Structural Violencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Thus, while the most marginal bodies (criminals, the poor, colonial subjects) were subjected to dissection, post-mortem practices were regarded as different and tended to concern elite bodies. 47 This was precisely the view seemingly taken with regard to Sabata Dalindyebo's body, retrieved from his ignominious pauper's grave, amidst rumours that those who inflicted this insulting burial may also have mutilated his body. Thus, although suggestions of forensic examination were regarded as sacrilegious in the case of Sarah Baartman, in the Dalindyebo matter, as Dennie points out, a post-mortem 'was called to determine whether such sacrilege had taken place ….…”
Section: Burying the Unjustly Deadmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Mortuary archaeology has actively shaped modern Western thinking and practices surrounding death, including body-disposal, material cultures, architectures and landscapes (Back Danielsson, 2009Crossland, 2009). 2.…”
Section: Mortuary Archaeology Contributes To Contemporary Deathmentioning
confidence: 99%