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

Summary: 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 Lies provides 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 familie.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520942622 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520942620 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780520255746 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520255747 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520255753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520255755 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (352 pages)
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Pronunciation; Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Introduction; 1. The Fall of Srebrenica; 2. The People and Place of Postwar Srebrenica; 3. A Technological Innovation; 4. Memory at Work; 5. Where Memory and Imagination Meet; 6. Return to Potocari; 7. That you see, that you know, that you remember; 8. Technology of Repair; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.