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still life with bones
Alexa Haggerty (Hachette)
Today we are all familiar with forensic anthropology.shows like skeleton and silent witness It taught us to expect meticulously exhumed corpses assembled on a table, elaborate chemical analyses, and computer-assisted reconstructions of fatal injuries. Anthropologists darkly quip about the remains and solve the case within an hour. The story is fun, yet incredibly neat.
By contrast, social anthropologist Alexa Haggerty’s still life with bones A candid account of a forensic anthropologist discovering and identifying victims of atrocities. It’s moving and beautiful, tragic and terrifying. And fear is not…
