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This 3 page paper is a review of the book The Bone Woman by Clea Koff. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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closure to people aching for answers. This paper is a brief review of the book. Discussion What she did and why she did it: In 1995, Clea Koff was a
graduate student in forensic anthropology at Stanford; when the U.N. put together a team of 16 scientists to find physical evidence of the crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide. When
Koff was asked to join this effort, she was overjoyed because it allowed her to do exactly what she wanted to do: "... help end human rights abuses by proving
to would-be killers that bones can talk" (Koff 7). Koff was inspired by the work of Clyde Snow, who wrote a book called Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones
Tell, about his creation of the "Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF)," a group that wanted to try to identify the remains of Argentines "disappeared during the military junta of the
1970s and 1980s" (Koff 7). Obviously, Koff, like Snow, is incensed by the idea of hundreds of thousands of people being murdered and discarded like garbage, with their families in
despair and no one knowing what happened to them. It became Koffs goal to work to end this kind of savagery by enabling governments to prosecute mass murderers for their
crimes. The expose writing: This term usually refers to someone who is knowledgeable in a field and chooses to write about it. Koff is the perfect person to write this
book, since she is working in the field and has not yet become jaded with it or tired of it. She describes her work in detail - not always easy
to stomach - but never sensationalizes it. She writes so that people who are not forensic experts can understand what she does, and how by reassembling human remains (she works
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