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Rumours of bones and the remembrance of an exterminated people in Newfoundland - the emotive immateriality of human remains
John Harries
proprietorship that is realised in the project of bringing bones into presence and so domesticating their excessive thingness and unsettling alterity as they are constituted and stabilised as curiosities and specimens through the work of mea suring, cataloguing, labelling, displaying and looking. The question of the emotive immateriality of human remains intersects therefore with broader questions of memory, forgetting and the ways in which violent acts of annihilation and dispossession are, particularly in colonial settler societies, foundational to the emergence of the