The Marginalized in Death

A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era

Jennifer F. Byrnes, Iván Sandoval-Cervantes (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2311-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2024
Co-Autor	Paulina Domínguez Acosta, Janna M. Andronowski, Jared S. Beatrice
Zusatzinfo	11 b/w illustrations; 15 b/w photos; 21 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 228 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-2311-7 / 1666923117
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-2311-7 / 9781666923117
Zustand	Neuware