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Forensic Anthropology Debra Komar (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico)

Forensic Anthropology By Debra Komar (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico)

Forensic Anthropology by Debra Komar (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico)

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Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice by Debra Komar (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico)

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.

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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
This book is superior to any other source on the market today. In recommending this book to colleagues I should note its coverage of the U.S. legal system, enlightened discussion of the NAGPRA issue and related ethical problems, its adequate history of the American advances in forensic anthropology, and the excellent case histories that it includes.-Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Cornell University

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

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CIN0195300297VG
9780195300291
0195300297
Forensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice by Debra Komar (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico)
Debra Komar (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Forensic Anthropologist, State of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
20071115
384
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