The Marginalized in Death

Jennifer F. Byrnes; Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

doi:10.5771/9781666923100

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-66692-309-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2310-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 336
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
4. 1. References No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
6. 1. Organization of the Volume No access
  2. References No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Dental Pathology, Structural Violence, and Stigma No access
  3. Migrant Deaths along the U.S.-Mexico Border No access
  4. 1. Full Dental Sample No access
    2. Identified Migrant Dental Subsample No access
  5. 1. 1. Caries and Dental Restorations No access
      2. Other Dental Modifications No access
      3. Periapical Lesions and Antemortem Tooth Loss No access
  6. Statistical Analysis No access
  7. Results No access
  8. 1. Oral Pathologies as Embodied Structural Violence No access
    2. Dental Stigma as an Additional Layer of Violence No access
    3. Contextualizing Oral Pathologies and Sociodemographic Variables No access
  9. Conclusion No access
  10. Note No access
  11. References No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law as Compared to the United States No access
  3. International Humanitarian Standards No access
  4. The Texas Criminal Code of Procedure (TCCP) and New Federal Law No access
  5. The Effects of Prevention through Deterrence in South Texas No access
  6. Governing Life and Death at the U.S.-Mexico Border No access
  7. Systems of Inaction No access
  8. Los Nuevos Desaparecidos: Exemplified through the Tres Norias Cemetery No access
  9. Conclusions, Recommendations, and the Shifting Role of Forensic Anthropologists No access
  10. Note No access
  11. References No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Es Complicado: Colombian Geography and the Situating of the Guerrilla, Paramilitaries, Narcotraffickers, and the Government No access
  3. Forensic Anthropology in Latin America No access
  4. Governmental Response to the Conflict: The Politics of Identification No access
  5. Structural Violence and Victimology No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Process of Stigma No access
  3. Deviance No access
  4. Dehumanization No access
  5. Language in Medicolegal Death Investigations No access
  6. Discussion No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Note No access
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1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Medical Anthropology and Social Epidemiology: A Brief Overview No access
  3. Relevant Theories from Medical Anthropology and Social Epidemiology No access
  4. Forensic Anthropological Evidence of Social Marginalization: Mechanisms and Manifestations No access
  5. Methodological Recommendations No access
  6. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. Impairment and Disability Concepts No access
  2. Demography, Deaths, and Disasters No access
  3. Camp Fire No access
  4. Methods No access
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  7. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Terminology No access
  3. Identities No access
  4. Assigned Sex at Birth No access
  5. Intersex No access
  6. Gender and Assigned Sex at Birth: Methods within Forensic Anthropology No access
  7. The Cycle of Socialization No access
  8. What Is Intersectional Violence? No access
  9. How Are Forensic Anthropologists Complicit in Intersectional Violence? No access
  10. Recommended Steps Forward No access
  11. Conclusion No access
  12. References No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Interpreting a Biology of Poverty and Osteology of Structural Violence No access
  3. The Case of Wayne County, Michigan No access
  4. Pathologies of Poverty—A Brief Overview of Casework No access
  5. Concluding Remarks No access
  6. Note No access
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5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Methods and Materials No access
  3. Results No access
  4. Discussion No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
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6. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Distribution of Identified and Unidentified U.S. Korean War Casualties No access
  3. The Effect of Structural Vulnerabilities on FRS Availability No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
7. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Profile of the Opioid Epidemic No access
  3. Implications for Forensic Anthropology No access
  4. Microscopic Evidence of Opioid-induced Bone Pathology Detected via High-resolution Imaging No access
  5. Macroscopic Indicators of Opioid-induced Bone Pathology: Case Studies No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. NOTE No access
  8. References No access
Index No access Pages 317 - 326
About the Editors No access Pages 327 - 328
About the Contributors No access Pages 329 - 336