To Know Where He Lies DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing

Name: To Know Where He Lies DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing
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ISBN: 9780520255753

ISBN-10: 0520255755

ISBN-13: 9780520255753

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sarah Wagner

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In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica.To Know Where He Liesprovides a powerful account of the innovative genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves and elsewhere, demonstrating how memory, imagination, and science come together to recover identities lost to genocide. Sarah E. Wagner explores technology's import across several areas of postwar Bosnian society--for families of the missing, the Srebrenica community, the Bosnian political leadership (including Serb and…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Sarah E. Wagneris Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Note on Pronunciation


Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina


Introduction



The Fall of Srebrenica



The People and Place of Postwar Srebrenica



A Technological Innovation



Memory at Work



Where Memory and Imagination Meet



Return to Potocari



'That you see, that you know, that you remember'



Technology of Repair


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index