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Bibliographic Information
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Still life with bones : genocide, forensics, and what remains
First edition.
- Author
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Hagerty, Alexa, author.
- Publisher:
- Crown, an imprint of Random House,
- Pub date:
- [2023]
- Pages:
- xvi, 300 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 9780593443132
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult Nonfiction.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Still life with bones : genocide, forensics, and what remains
First edition.
Hagerty, Alexa, author.
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Still life with bones : genocide, forensics, and what remains
First edition.
Hagerty, Alexa, author.
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Personal Author:
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Hagerty, Alexa, author.
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Title:
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Still life with bones : genocide, forensics, and what remains / Alexa Hagerty.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Publication Info:
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New York : Crown, an imprint of Random House, [2023]
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Physical description:
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xvi, 300 pages ; 22 cm
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Summary:
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"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. In Still Life with Bones, anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for evidence of torture and fatal wounds-hands bound by rope, cuts from machetes-but also for signs of a life lived: to articulate how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the tiny bones of the toes, molded by years of kneeling before a loom; a girl is identified alongside her pet dog. In the tenderness of understanding these bones, Hagerty discovers how exhumation serves as a ritual in the naming and placement of the dead, and connects ancestors with future generations. She shows us how this work can bring meaning to families dealing with unimaginable loss, and how its symbolic force can also extend to entire societies in the aftermath of state terror and genocide. Weaving together powerful stories about investigative breakthroughs, grieving families, histories of violence, and her own forensic coming of age, Hagerty crafts a moving portrait of the living and the dead"-- Provided by publisher.
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Personal subject:
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Hagerty, Alexa.
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Subject term:
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Forensic anthropology--Latin America.
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Mass burials--Latin America.
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Subject term:
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Exhumation--Latin America.
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Subject term:
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Crimes against humanity--Latin America.
