Forensic Anthropology
Contemporary Theory and Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 15 November 2007
- ISBN 9780195300291
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 155x236x25 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 82 halftones, 12 line drawings 0
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Short description:
Forensic anthropology is a vastly popular and rapidly changing profession, yet to date there has been no volume that reflects the current state of the discipline and forecasts its future. The first comprehensive text in the field, Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice examines the medical, legal, ethical, and humanitarian issues associated with forensic anthropology, current forensic methods, and bio-historical investigations, offering a unique synthesis of theoretical and methodological coverage.
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Forensic anthropology is a vastly popular and rapidly changing profession, yet to date there has been no volume that reflects the current state of the discipline and forecasts its future. The first comprehensive text in the field, Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice examines the medical, legal, ethical, and humanitarian issues associated with forensic anthropology, current forensic methods, and bio-historical investigations.
Forensic Anthropology offers a unique synthesis of theoretical and methodological coverage. Rather than simply describing methodology, Komar and Buikstra place forensic anthropology in the broader context of medico-legal death investigations, critically evaluating practical techniques in a scientific framework and detailing the anthropologist's role in relation to both law enforcement and the medical examiner or coroner. The authors review the current state of the field, emphasizing recent changes to the judicial guidelines regarding the admissibility of scientific evidence in court. They highlight the impact of these rulings, the increased need for scientific rigor, and the evolving nature of anthropological studies, preparing students to function effectively in the demanding judicial system that will evaluate their work in the future. The text also stresses the vital importance of research in the development of forensic applications of anthropology.
Forensic Anthropology is enhanced by numerous illustrative case studies and more than ninety photos and illustrations that help to deepen and enrich students' understanding of the material. Coauthored by a top authority in forensic anthropology and an anthropologist whose fieldwork has included medico-legal death investigation in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Darfur, this volume is an in-depth and indispensable guide to the dynamic and rapidly professionalizing field of forensic anthropology.
"This book is definitely one that I would use in my classes. As a reference text it is one that all practicing forensic anthropologists will want to own and will want their students to have. Other volumes do not provide a comprehensive resource for the challenges facing us today. Such a volume as [this one] will certainly advance that cause."--Mary H. Manhein, Louisiana State University and Deputy Coroner of East Baton Rouge Parish
Table of Contents:
Chapters 2-10 open with an Introduction and end with a Conclusion.
1. Introduction
Forensic Anthropology: A Brief History (1972-2006)
What Is Forensic Anthropology Today?
Where Do Forensic Anthropologists Work?
Is Forensic Anthropology Expanding in the United States?
Forensic Anthropology Outside the United States
Research in Forensic Anthropology Today
Forensic Anthropology in Perspective
2. The Medicolegal System
The Medicolegal System
Jurisdiction
Cause and Manner of Death
Autopsy and Postmortem Examinations
3. Evidence and the Judicial System
Evidence
Evidence Interpretation: Rationality versus Parsimony
The Judicial System: An Overview
Testifying as a Witness
Homicide
4. Crime Scene Investigation: Identifying Medicolegal Remains, Search Strategies, and Scene Documentation
Identifying Remains of Medicolegal Significance
Differentiating Human from Animal Bone and Nonbiological Materials
Jurisdiction and the Crime Scene
Evaluating Scenes
Search Strategies
Evidence
Documentation
Burials
Report Writing
5. Beginning the Identification Process: Developing a Biological Profile
Theories and Methods in Forensic Anthropology
The Estimation of Sex from Skeletal Remains
The Estimation of Age-at-Death from Skeletal Remains
Ancestry
Stature Estimation
Other Physical Features
6. Pathology and Trauma Assessment
The Language of Pathology, Anatomy, and Medicine
Pathology: An Overview
Trauma Assessment
Gunshot Wound Interpretation
7. Forensic Taphonomy
Forensic Taphonomy
The Goals of Forensic Taphonomy
8. Personal Identification
How Identification Is Established
Categories of Identification
Methods of Positive Identification
Alternative Medical Imaging
Impact of Daubert on Positive Identification
Photographic Superimposition and Facial Recognition
9. Mass Death and International Investigations of Human Rights Violations
War Crimes
Personal Identification
Humanitarian versus Medicolegal Response
Mass Graves
Objectivity
10. Biohistory: Historical Questions, Methods, and Ethics
Biohistory: Past and Present
Noninvasive Analyses
A Case Study in Biohistorical and Forensic Investigation: Billy the Kid
Glossary
References Cited and Related Bibliographic Items
Index
