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speliza's review against another edition
3.0
The chapter “Indian Woman” was incredibly disrespectful and dismissive to indigenous communities. An uncomfortable read that ruined the rest of the book for me.
valsplace's review against another edition
4.0
This book got me really excited for my future career. The stories in this are very fragmented and short, but I still liked it none the less. Cool information about the forensics behind everything.
amareenicole11's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Very, very informational and interesting! It's cool to read about how bodies can be identified through bones alone, and that bones can actually give insight on to how a person could have died. The snippets of information and facts were insanely intriguing and she does such a good job at telling the stories of her cases. I could read more and more and more. Looking for the rest of her hooks now!
My first thought when reading was "I wonder if she's still teaching and I wonder how I can take a class."
Anthropology has always fascinated me.
My first thought when reading was "I wonder if she's still teaching and I wonder how I can take a class."
Anthropology has always fascinated me.
_lilbey_'s review against another edition
3.0
I would have liked more info on the cases. She spent too much time musing over her childhood in stories that had no clear connection to whatever case she was talking about. I upped the stars because some of the illustrations were useful.
lilycooper's review against another edition
2.0
very interesting just wasn’t the best forensic science book i’ve ever read
ghostrachel's review against another edition
2.0
And I thought you couldn't go wrong with case study books about forensic anthropology... Half of the case studies in the book end with something to the effect of, "and we never did find out what happened." Not many of the cases were terribly interesting to begin with, not much detail is given (the average case study seems to be only 5 or 6 pages long), not a lot of forensic information is given. It's almost if this were an annotated synopsis of some cases she had to help jog her memory after she retired. I gave it two stars instead of one because of the basic subject matter. I just can't figure out why you'd write a bunch of unanswered case histories. The closing chapter is a series of facial reconstructions of Jane and John Doe's, with a short paragraph about their race and location-- a sort of "have you seen me?". Maybe next time instead of going to the library, I'll go to the grocery store and read the back of the milk cartons.
If you're interested in the subject matter, I would skip over this book and read Bill Bass's books, "Death's Acre" or "Beyond the Body Farm".
If you're interested in the subject matter, I would skip over this book and read Bill Bass's books, "Death's Acre" or "Beyond the Body Farm".
library_ann's review against another edition
3.0
frustrating lack of details. By necessity sometimes of course -- she mostly reports what the evidence tells her, and so sometimes she does not have much evidence. But even when she does, I felt like she was holding back some details either to protect the surviving family or to protect the reader from something disturbing. That's a fine line -- sometimes I am disturbed when all the facts of the case are laid out with gory intricacy, but generally I think more is better than less for me.
Side note: 2 degrees of separation, as a friend of mine took classes with her at LSU.
Side note: 2 degrees of separation, as a friend of mine took classes with her at LSU.
auntiewhispers's review against another edition
3.0
This book was really interesting but disappointingly short. There wasn't really a narrative, just a bunch of cases. Interesting but not as good as it could have been.