Civil War Dead Bodies Summary

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This is a sociological and theoretical study of the political symbols of dead bodies and will be used in the historiography of the meaning of searching and caring for remains. By using case studies like the Japanese search for their WWII dead, the controversies of removing Civil War dead bodies to make place for WWII veterans in West Virginia, the political attack using bodies of the victims of atrocities in Latin America, and the veneration of bodies in ex-socialist/Nazi countries, the author argues that the dead are invested with considerable political powers in nation-states and the political systems are well aware of the purpose of the reburial rituals and posthumous restoration of citizenship. The states have their needs for a collective