Reviews tagging 'War'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

22 reviews

laurynking's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, and War

jobaji's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

So, so powerful. Was tearing up by page 2, and never really stopped 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

malleykde's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

scotia_mullin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book was impeccable. Hagerty writes an emotive and compelling piece around her experiences of studying genocide and mass disappearance. 
As an anthropologist I found the idea of a cultural anthropologist conducting fieldwork alongside forensic anthropologists fascinating. Her perspectives have voice to both the insider and the outside and explored themes deeply. 
The ethnographic writing style was descriptive, reflective, and honest and brought light to an issue that is commonly glazed over in history. 
I really enjoyed the authors pace, tone, and overall writing style and found the book easy to digest. Although some parts were sad and dense I recommend reading this book whether you are an anthropologist or not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

greendog95's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Torture, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Child death

cmisich's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A well written detail of not only the recovery, identification, and aftermath of genocides and the horrors in Argentina and Guatemala. It also covers the impact and hard work of those trying to bring the horror to light, identify the desaparecidos, and the challenges when those responsible still live among them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

rheagoveas's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Violence, and War

lcdavenport's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

makenna_reads's review against another edition

informative sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death

savvy999's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.5

Informative, devastating and beautiful. It’s a haunting reminder of the fragility of life and importance of dignity in death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and War