The Intimacy of Discovery
November 24, 2023 8:29 AM Subscribe
Bringing up the Bodies: The forensic anthropologists who redress migrant death in Texas, by Caroline Tracey. Related: Archaeologist Jason de León's interdisciplinary Undocumented Migrant Project.
It’s heartening to see the anthropologists working with such care and concern, while law enforcement and the funeral business showed nothing of the sort. It’s a surprisingly brisk, if sometimes tough, read.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:44 PM on November 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:44 PM on November 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
A rec for the book The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford, which has an Edge of the Seat chapter on the Sonoran Desert. Me review:
In the Sonoran Desert, a super fragile ecosystem shared by Mexico and the USA, the human victims number in the hundreds. They have been forced to trek through a desert at night because the US border patrol acts performatively in El Paso to show that it will be impossible to cross the border there, where you can almost spit across the Rio Grande. Walls across the desert and relentless roving Border Patrol ATVs, not to mention a USAF bombing range, have more or less driven the Sonora pronghorn antelope Antilocapra americana sonoriensis to extinction. And it's not just the glamorous large mammal that is affected by this illegal assault on a protected environment.
posted by BobTheScientist at 12:07 AM on November 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
In the Sonoran Desert, a super fragile ecosystem shared by Mexico and the USA, the human victims number in the hundreds. They have been forced to trek through a desert at night because the US border patrol acts performatively in El Paso to show that it will be impossible to cross the border there, where you can almost spit across the Rio Grande. Walls across the desert and relentless roving Border Patrol ATVs, not to mention a USAF bombing range, have more or less driven the Sonora pronghorn antelope Antilocapra americana sonoriensis to extinction. And it's not just the glamorous large mammal that is affected by this illegal assault on a protected environment.
posted by BobTheScientist at 12:07 AM on November 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
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