Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

3 reviews

mslaureeslibrary's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Classism

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Prior to reading this book, I had no idea that the American-backed genocide of Mayans in Guatemala, nor the Nazi-affiliated disappearings in Argentina ever happened. In this book, Alexa Hagerty does a beautiful and poignant job exploring the atrocities and her experience exhuming the mass graves left in their wake at a human level. She breaks down the walls built up in many western minds between the body and the person they were; the stories they still have left to tell, exploring how that mental block helps and hinders in archeological and anthropological study. The respect and interest Hagerty pays to working to understand things unknown to and outside the boundaries of consideration of much of western study, like that of Maya cosmovision, shows there dedication to both her work and the people she has come to care for - both living and dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism