Jul 12, 2024
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
