Title Digging for the disappeared : forensic science after atrocity / Adam Rosenblatt.

Publication Info.	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
	©2015

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Description	1 online resource (xxi, 278 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Stanford studies in human rights
	Stanford studies in human rights.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 16 2015).
Summary	The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is g.
Contents	Introduction : born at the graves : a human rights movement takes shape -- The stakeholders in international forensic investigations -- The politics of grief -- Forensics of the sacred -- Dead to rights -- Caring for the dead.
Subject	Forensic anthropology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Dead -- Identification.
	Mass burials.
	Human rights.
	Atrocities.
	NATURE / Animals / Mammals
	SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals
	Dead -- Identification.
	Forensic anthropology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Mass burials.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Rosenblatt, Adam Digging for the disappeared : forensic science after atrocity. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2015 xxi, 278 pages Stanford studies in human rights. 9780804788779 2014039062
ISBN	9780804794886 (electronic bk.)
	080479488X (electronic bk.)

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