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deciduousangel · 6 months ago

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Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration — of building something new with the “pile of broken mirrors” that is memory, loss, and mourning.

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty

#forensic anthropology #exhumation #cultural anthropology #still life with bones #alexa hagerty #genocide research #rebuilding souls & reconstructing historical memory post violence & genocide #the phrase pile of broken mirrors is so rhetorically interesting here #literally hagerty is exhuming piles of broken bones #but metaphorically and spiritually memory grief and self image are being exhumed and reconstruction #post violence and genocide #if memory is a mirror then so must be the exhumed body

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