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- Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Anthropological Witness looks at big questions about the ethical imperatives and epistemological assumptions involved in explanation and the role of the public scholar in addressing issues relating to truth, justice, social repair, and genocide. Hinton asks: Can scholars who serve as expert witnesses effectively contribute to international atrocity crimes tribunals where the focus is on legal guilt as opposed to academic explanation?
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- Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology Enter the fascinating world of forensics, and learn how the deceased are located, recovered and analysed using DNA and pathology.
- Forensic Facial Reconstruction: Finding Mr. X On Saturday 22 January 2000, two men found a small holdall, abandoned on an industrial estate in the north of Sheffield. Upon opening the bag they made a gruesome discovery. A badly decomposed body. Who was this person? Why did they die? Where had the body been stored all of this time?
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About Fractured Lives
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for KHC MD101: Fractured Lives and Bodies: Forensic Anthropology, Disasters, and Human Rights, taught by Professor Sean Tallman.
What Does a Forensic Anthropologist Really Do?
- Not As-Seen-On-TV Forensic Anthropology (Anthropology News) The version of death portrayed in pop culture and in the media is not the death forensic anthropologists deal with. This career requires us to have direct contact with death in a real, visceral ,emotional way.
