Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

38 reviews

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

stravabutforbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Rape, Torture, Kidnapping, and Murder

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

finnickdeservedbetter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Pregnancy

kingkiller99's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This book so hard to read. Learning every bit of information about the massacres and disappearances in Argentina and Guatemala was heartbreaking and soul crushing. Some of the things I read made me horrified that this  is what humanity has created. However I was also in awe by the work that other people did to help try and bring people to justice and the disappeared home. Definitely read like a scholarly book at times but worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Minor: Animal death

artisjoke's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement and Pregnancy

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

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