Informationen zum Autor Alexa Hagerty is an anthropologist, researcher, and scholar of science, technology, and society. She holds a PhD from Stanford and is an associate fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research has received honours and funding from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Ethnological Society, among others. She has written for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Wired, Social Anthropology, and Palais de Tokyo. Klappentext In this haunting and poetic account, anthropologist Alexa Hagerty joins forensic teams and families of the missing as they search for the hundreds of thousands victims of genocidal violence unleashed by authoritarian governments in Latin America. In Guatemala and Argentina, she learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for evidence of torture and cause of death - hands bound by rope, cuts from machetes - but also for signs of a life lived: 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. Hagerty shows us how exhumation can bring meaning to families dealing with unimaginable loss and justice to 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. Vorwort A forensic anthropologist travels to Latin America to excavate the mass graves of 'the disappeared', reunite bodies with their loves ones and bring the perpetrators of genocide to justice. Zusammenfassung A forensic anthropologist travels to Latin America to excavate the mass graves of 'the disappeared', reunite bodies with their loves ones and bring the perpetrators of genocide to justice.

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A forensic anthropologist travels to Latin America to excavate the mass graves of 'the disappeared', reunite bodies with their loves ones and bring the perpetrators of genocide to justice.

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In this haunting and poetic account, anthropologist Alexa Hagerty joins forensic teams and families of the missing as they search for the hundreds of thousands victims of genocidal violence unleashed by authoritarian governments in Latin America.

In Guatemala and Argentina, she learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for evidence of torture and cause of death - hands bound by rope, cuts from machetes - but also for signs of a life lived: 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.

Hagerty shows us how exhumation can bring meaning to families dealing with unimaginable loss and justice to 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.