The Marginalized in Death
A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
The Marginalized in Death
A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
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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.
Taken collectively, the chapters in this volume effectively demonstrate how a forensic anthropology informed by social theorizing makes visible violences (political, structural, symbolic, everyday, posthumous) experienced by certain marginalized and vulnerable groups. Authors’ case studies—about undocumented migrants, rural villagers, gender-diverse individuals, the urban poor and houseless, victims of natural disaster, deceased military personnel, opioid users—are sure to instigate needed policy changes, as well as help realize a praxis that is more compassionate and ethical.
A superb collection of essays making an important and timely connection between forensics and cultural anthropology. The Marginalized in Death pushes our understanding of the lives of vulnerable populations in new directions while simultaneously making the much needed argument that we can no longer imagine a forensic science that is not in deep conversation with ethnography.
This committed group of scholars and scientists explores the many reasons why some bodies are more vulnerable than others to preventable deaths, disappearance, and erasure--including the erasure of histories, identities, and basic dignity through forensic casework. In response, they offer clear, necessary steps towards more ethical deathwork and more rigorous ways of knowing the dead.
This field-defining volume demonstrates how forensic anthropology is uniquely positioned as both a tool for making visible direct violence perpetrated against the living and a discipline capable of revealing how more insidious forms of violence—structural violence, postmortem violence, and the violence of stigmatization—harm entire communities long before and long after death. The insights regarding how violence operates and how it changes the human body make this a must-read for scholars of mass violence, medical anthropology, and the sociology of health and illness.
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.