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This volume brings forensic and cultural anthropology closer together through case studies of structural violence and power. Paying attention to how death further marginalizes minoritized populations, this volume goes beyond conventional forensic anthropology and sheds light on the field’s potential to address social injustice.
List of contents
Foreword by Zoë Crossland
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Jennifer F. Byrnes and Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Part I: At the Border: International and Domestic Efforts Towards Identification
Chapter 1: Oral Pathologies as a Reflection of Structural Violence and Stigma Among Undocumented Migrants from Mexico and Central America by Angela Soler, Jared S. Beatrice, and Daniel E. Martínez
Chapter 2: Forgotten Spaces: The Structural Disappearance of Migrants in South Texas by Molly A. Kaplan, Courtney C. Siegert, Mariah E. Moe, Chloe P. McDaneld, and M. Kate Spradley
Chapter 3: Qué pena con usted: The Struggle for Victim Identification in Colombia by Elizabeth A. DiGangi and Daniela Santamaria Vargas
Chapter 4: Devaluing the Dead: The Role of Stigma in Medicolegal Death Investigations of Long-Term Missing and Unidentified Persons in the United States by Cate E. Bird and Jason D. P. Bird
Part II: At the Intersection: Social Identities and Forensic Anthropology
Chapter 5: Theorizing Social Marginalizati
About the author
Jennifer F. Byrnes is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a consultant for the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner. Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School.Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School.Jennifer F. Byrnes is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a consultant for the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner. Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School.Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School.
Summary
This volume brings forensic and cultural anthropology closer together through case studies of structural violence and power. Paying attention to how death further marginalizes minoritized populations, this volume goes beyond conventional forensic anthropology and sheds light on the field’s potential to address social injustice.
