Why Some Bodies Matter: Defacement and Narrative in Historical Forensic Cases

William N. Duncan; Christopher M. Stojankowski

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107051409

Why Some Bodies Matter: Defacement and Narrative in Historical Forensic Cases

William N. Duncan
, Christopher M. Stojankowski

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

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Abstract

Since the 1980s, ethnographers have increasingly explored the ways that dead bodies and body parts may have significant and dynamic afterlives by virtue of their psychological, social, political, and economic potential [...]

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107051409
State	Published - Mar 5 2014

Keywords

anthropology
bodily defacement
forensic science

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Anthropology

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Why Some Bodies Matter: Defacement and Narrative in Historical Forensic Cases

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