Forensic anthropology teams in Latin America / edited by Silvia Dutrénit-Bielous.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutrénit, Silvia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forensic anthropology--Latin America.

Forensic anthropology.

Human rights--Latin America.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]

Summary:

"This book charts the development of forensic anthropology teams in Latin America and surveys their main characteristics, achievements, and challenges in light of a recent past fraught with state repression and violence. The volume contains contributions by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from several Latin American universities, with chapters on Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. These countries' shared legacy is a host of human rights violations that continue to have an impact on present day society. Following the move towards democracy and a public demand for truth and justice, the volume highlights the role of forensic anthropology teams and their contribution as a source of information for the historical narrative, as a legal asset in enforcing the right to truth, and in achieving reparation for victims. This collection will be of interest to scholars from Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Politics, and History"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Prologue

Chapter 1 An introduction: Departure, journey, arrival

Notes

References

Chapter 2 Inter-American human rights law and forensic anthropology

Inter-American human rights instruments

The disappearance of the body: Humanisation and sepulchre

Forensic anthropology at the service of truth, justice, and reparation

Conclusions

Chapter 3 The end of negationism in Latin America: The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team

Characterisation of the type of dictatorship

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team

October 2014: The final victory over oblivion

Epilogue

Chapter 4 The role of forensic anthropology in the identification of missing detainees in Chile

Chile's regime of terror

The transition to democracy

The forensic anthropology contribution in the process of identifying human remains

The effects of misidentifications: The incorporation of the GAF into the SML

Emblematic cases that marked the identification process of disappeared detainees

Conclusion

Chapter 5 Forensic anthropology in Uruguay

Historical background: The beginnings of repressive coordination and Operation Condor

The post-dictatorship democratic governments in the face of the violations to human rights

The context of the exhumations: Archaeology against repression

Chapter 6 The search for missing persons in Peru

Antecedents of violence in Peru

Origin of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team

Forensic anthropological investigation versus mass exhumations

Memoria de los Desaparecidos (Memory of the Disappeared).

Context of the Search for Missing Persons Pursuant to Law 30470

Chapter 7 Forensic anthropology in Guatemala

Recent history: From counter-revolution to genocidal acts

From denunciation to the search for justice: The study of political violence

Forensic anthropology

Further reading

Chapter 8 Forced disappearance and forensic anthropology in Mexico

The regime "a la Mexicana": Presidentialist authoritarianism and the populist state, the perfect equation

Forensic work: The 1970s and diligence focused on isolated incidents

Final thoughts

Chapter 9 Arrival at destination. What comes next? …

Bipolarity scene and repressive strategy

Contexts of revision and hierarchy of the disappeared as emblematic victims

The forensic teams as emblematic actors of a regional history that demanded their presence

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-63344-0

0-429-63195-2

0-429-03133-5

9780429031335

OCLC:

1108789757