Researcher profile #6641

ANSTETT
Elisabeth
CNRS Research Director
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Assignment
Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé
ADES / UMR 7268
Aix-Marseille Université
27 boulevard Jean Moulin
13005 MARSEILLE
Your fields of study
Anthropology
Keywords (3–5) specifying your research topics
Existence of the dead
Culture
Mass death
Mortality crisis
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Names of scientific networks and/or associations (please expand any abbreviations)
International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)
International Association of Genocide Scholar (IAGS)
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Selected publications

Roberto Parra, Élisabeth Anstett, Pierre Perich, Jane Buikstra. Unidentified deceased persons: Social life, social death and humanitarian action, in Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living, Roberto C. Parra; Sara C. Zapico; Douglas H. Ubelaker (eds.). Wiley, pp.79-99, 2020, 9781119481966. ⟨10.1002/9781119482062.ch6⟩⟨halshs-02458033⟩

Anstett, Élisabeth. "Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina." Death studies 47.6 (2023): 666-678.

Schmitt, Aurore, et Élisabeth Anstett (dir.)  Sans sépulture: modalités et enjeux de la privation de funérailles de la préhistoire à nos jours. ArcheoPress, 2023.

Élisabeth Anstett. Del desecho a la reliquia. Los antropologos sociales enfrentados al estatuto cambiante de los restos humanos. Lopez Mazz José, Anstett Elisabeth. Restos oseos humanos: cosas o personas?, Universidad de la Republica, pp.17-27, 2022, 9789974019690. ⟨hal-03923317⟩

Élisabeth Anstett. Pourquoi exhumer? : L'anthropologie du funéraire face au forensic turn. Valérie Robin Azevedo. [Im]matérialités de la mort, CNRS éditions, pp.205-223, 2020, Les essentiels d'Hermès, 9782271131348. ⟨halshs-02457919⟩

A brief description of your work

Elisabeth Anstett is a social anthropologist and director of research at the CNRS. Her work focuses on the social and cultural treatment of the corpse, and more specifically on funerary practices and processes of patrimonialization of human remains in contemporary contexts marked by episodes of mortality crisis.

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