List of Illustrations...............................................XI Preface and Acknowledgments.......................................XIII INTRODUCTION: CORPSES ON THE MOVE....................................1 A Parade of Dead Bodies..........................................4 Named and Famous Dead: Statues...............................4 Named and Famous Corpses....................................13 Anonymous Dead..............................................20 ONE: DEAD BODIES ANIMATE THE STUDY OF POLITICS......................23 Why Dead Bodies?................................................27 Reordering Worlds of Meaning....................................33 Authority, Politics, and the Sacred.........................37 Moral Order.................................................38 Reconfiguring Space and Time................................39 National Identities and Social Relations....................40 TWO: THE RESTLESS BONES OF BISHOP INOCHENTIE MICU...................55 Who Was Bishop Inochentie Micu?.................................58 Inochentie Begins to Stir.......................................65 Compe ... read full excerpt from: The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change ebook