Mass graves, stagnating identification, and violence: A case study in the local sources of "the war" in Bosnia Hercegovina

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-19

  Bax, Mart ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bosnia Hercogovina; Identity; Mass graves; Violence; War

Indexed keywords

COMMEMORATION; ETHNIC CLEANSING; MASS GRAVE; WAR MONUMENT;

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA;

EID: 0031472610     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3317798     Document Type: Article

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