The Marginalized in Death (eBook, ePUB)

A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
Redaktion: Byrnes, Jennifer F.; Sandoval-Cervantes, Iván

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume bridges the gap between forensic and cultural anthropology in how both disciplines describe and theorize the dead, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship. As applied disciplines dealing with some of the most marginalized people in our society, forensic anthropologists have the potential to shed light on important and persistent social issues that we face today. Forensic anthropologists have successfully pursued research agendas primarily focused on the development of individual biological profiles, time since death, recovery, and identification. Few, however, have taken a step back from their lab bench to consider how and why people become forensic cases or place their work in a larger theoretical context. Thus, this volume challenges forensic anthropologists to reflect how we can use our toolkit and databases to address larger social issues and quandaries that we face in a world where some are spared from becoming forensic anthropology cases and others are not. As witnesses to violence, crimes against humanity, and the embodied consequences of structural violence, we have the opportunity-and arguably, the responsibility-to transcend the traditional medico-legal confines of our small sub-discipline, by synthesizing forensic anthropology casework into theoretically grounded social science with potentially transformative impacts at a global scale.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666923100
• Artikelnr.: 65464457

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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