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Still life with bones genocide, forensics, and what remains

"An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers...

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Main Author: Hagerty, Alexa (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, an imprint of Random House, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
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Hagerty, Alexa.
Forensic anthropology > Latin America.
Día de los Muertos.
Mass burials > Latin America.
Exhumation > Latin America.
Crimes against humanity > Latin America.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Articulating Bones
  • A Lovely Grave for Learning
  • Forensic Lamentations
  • Día de los Muertos
  • An Archive of Surveillance
  • Teaching Skeleton
  • The Ghosts of Argentina
  • Tucumán is Burning
  • Touching Bones
  • Mothers
  • Melancholy of Bones
  • Southern Cross
  • Odysseus
  • The Guarumo Tree
  • The Well
  • Epilogue.

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