Laying the Dead to Rest: Meeting Forensic Anthropologist Mercedes Doretti (April 15, 2010) [encore]

Summary: Forensic sciences have entered 21st-century imaginations, from CSI to Indiana Jones. We explore the human landscape of this work and its emergence as a tool for human rights in Ethiopia to Juarez, Mexico. We also hear Argentinean human rights activist and poet, Alicia Partnoy. Mercedes Doretti is an Argentinean forensic anthropologist who has unearthed bones and stories of dead and disappeared civilians from Argentina's Dirty War. She shares her perspective on reparation, the need to bury our dead, and the many facets of justice.