The bone woman : a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
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Booklist Review
Any title containing the words mass graves portends some tough reading, and Koff's unblinking, direct memoir is not lacking in ghastliness. One of her aims, however, is to contrast her interior reactions to her work of exhuming and examining the victims of the Balkan and Rwandan massacres of the early 1990s with the meticulous professionalism needed to conduct it. Koff's observation that when I analyze human remains I am interested, not repulsed is shown in her objective descriptive writing about particular victims' physical characteristics and traumas. Away from the grave or autopsy table, however, Koff allows glimpses of the mental effort her professionalism requires by relating her numerous nightmares and manifestations of stress. She accepts this burden out of a deeply idealistic motivation--her hope that her career in forensic anthropology will reduce human rights violations in the world. Koff also writes about incidents of her field experiences such as privations, the dangers of gunfire and mines, and the interpersonal relations with her colleagues and UN guards. --Gilbert Taylor Copyright 2004 Booklist
Library Journal Review
In 1996, at age 23, Koff went from graduate school in forensic anthropology to forensic investigative work in Kibuye, Rwanda, as part of a team sent by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) following the genocide. She participated in six other missions, recovering bodies following mass murders in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. This is a first-person account of her experiences. When the women of Vukovar, Croatia, resisted having bodies exhumed because they wanted to find their relatives alive, the author was forced to question the true value of her work. But she realized that the evidence revealed the commission of a terrible crime against humanity and came to accept that forensic analysis would allow the victims to incriminate their killers and history to be written as accurately as possible. This is a brave book, presented in a clear voice by a scientist who is confident that her missions will get to the truth and yet human enough to cry at the horror of it all. For history, anthropology, and women's studies collections.-Joan W. Gartland, Detroit P.L. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Koff, C. (2004). The bone woman: a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo (First edition.). Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Koff, Clea. 2004. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. New York: Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo New York: Random House, 2004.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Koff, C. (2004). The bone woman: a forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of rwanda, bosnia, croatia, and kosovo. First edn. New York: Random House.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo First edition., Random House, 2004.