Always look in the well
Rachel Nolan: Guatemala’s Graves, 13 July 2023
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics and What Remains
by Alexa Hagerty.
Wildfire, 296 pp., £22, March,978 1 4722 9577 4 Show More
by Alexa Hagerty.
Wildfire, 296 pp., £22, March,
Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velásquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice
by Victoria Sanford.
California, 200 pp., £24, May,978 0 520 39345 5 Show More
by Victoria Sanford.
California, 200 pp., £24, May,
“... atrocities during the 36 years of armed conflict. They work despite repeated death threats. As Alexa Hagerty notes in Still Life with Bones, Guatemala is a popular place to study the techniques of forensic anthropology because of the brutality of the war there, especially in the 1980s, when genocidal violence was carried out against Maya groups. ‘In ... ”
