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Necrolife: Encounters of Practice in the Colombian Morgues. An Ethnography of Postmortem Examinations
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Necrolife: Encounters of Practice in the Colombian Morgues. An Ethnography of Postmortem Examinations. |
| 개인저자 | Morales Fontanilla, Julia Alejandra. |
| 단체저자명 | University of California, Davis. Cultural Studies. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: University of California, Davis., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 123 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781085794640 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: de la Cadena, Marisol. |
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| 요약 | This dissertation looks at forensic practices and the performance of postmortem examinations of human remains at three public morgues in Colombia to explore how death and the dead emerge, both materially and conceptually, out of everyday medico-forensic practices. This project arises of two years of ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation research at the morgues of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Colombia (INML) in the cities of Villavicencio, Medellin, and Bogota. Deploying ethnographic methodology and participating in everyday life at these three morgues, I interrogate the material practices through which forensic doctors and other morgue workers engage dead bodies to generate medical and legal facts about both the dead and the cause of their death, and, I suggest, death and the dead themselves. In the last decades the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences has taken an increasingly prominent role in contemporary Colombian politics, public policy, and mass media as a state institution charged with the role of elucidating and producing the necessary facts and evidentiary knowledge that would distribute responsibility across the scenarios of violence-not only due to war-that plague the country -from the left wing guerrilla groups to the right wing paramilitary militias, the state armed forces, or civil violent actors. I argue that in morgues at the INML both facts about death and the materiality of death are the result of what I conceptualize as encounters of practice -a generative coming together of diverse actors into a process of making that creates its object at the same time that makes an account of them, a particular cause of death and thus the death itself during a postmortem examination. This is a concern not with the sociopolitical circumstances that may cause death in a context of extreme violence, but rather with how the death that has already taken placer comes to hold and become solid as such.In this way I also argue that practices in the morgue are living encounters that on making the causes of death, make exist the material dead body as an entity that the state can recognize. Looking at specific cases of postmortem examinations, I illustrate my conceptualization of the notion of necrolife. This elaborates on the morgues as being spaces in which death is not the absence of action and life but rather a very lively presence. My argument challenges our common understandings of what death and a dead body can be, by showing the activity and liveliness of materiality -even of a dead human body. In this way, this work wants to think other instances through which extreme violence becomes what it is. |
| 일반주제명 | Cultural anthropology. Latin American studies. Forensic anthropology. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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