The Bone Woman
Subtitle: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: April 27, 2004
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781400060641
Subjects: Identification; Rwanda; Former Yugoslav republics; Anthropology (Specific Aspects); War Crimes And Criminals; Sociology; Law; International; History & Theory - General; Africa - West; Anthropology - Physical; Current Events / General; Anthropology - General; Body, Human; Forensic anthropology
First sentence: IT TOOK TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO FLY FROM CALIFORNIA TO Rwanda.
Table of contents: title: Before -- Part one : Kibuye : January 6 - February 27, 1996. The blood’s long gone -- They killed their friends as if they didn’t know them -- The grave -- The man with the prosthetic leg -- “Thank you very much for your work” -- Afterlife -- Part two : Kigali : June 3 - June 24, 1996. “Everyone knows a genocide happened here” -- The hospital for the dead people -- Rwanda, live -- Part three : Bosnia July 4 - August 29, 1996. Almost picnic -- I’m just a worker here -- The morgue -- Double vision -- Part four : Croatia : August 30 - September 30, 1996. Seekers of the living -- The translator -- Voices of the dead -- The mothers -- Part five : Kosovo : April 2  - June 3, 2000 and July 3 - July 23, 2000. “What’s lck-tee?” -- The grandfather -- The boy with the marbles -- The Swede at the morgue -- Spiritual sustenance -- The old man’s third bullet -- After -- Tribunal appendix.