Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains Hagerty Alexa
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains Hagerty Alexa An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America…
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains Hagerty Alexa
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 and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration--of building something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is memory, loss, and mourning.Throughout Guatemala's thirty-six-year armed conflict, state forces killed over 200,000 people. In the wake of genocidal violence, families of the missing searched for the truth. Argentina's military dictatorship disappeared up to 30,000 people.
Gathering evidence in the face of intimidation and death threats, they pioneered the field of Young scientists joined their fight against impunity.