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Author: Dawnie Wolfe Steadman
Edition: Paperback 1st edition - October 3, 2002 (310 pages)
ISBN: 0130305677
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Price: $38.1
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The book provides both introductory and advanced students with
a strong sense of the types of cases in which forensic anthropologists
become involved, as well as their professional and ethical responsibilities,
the scientific rigor required, and the multidisciplinary nature
of the science. Table of Contents:
1. Introducing Forensic Anthropology, Dawnie Wolfe Steadman.
I. THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND LEGAL NATURE OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
CASEWORK IN THE UNITED STATES, DAWNIE WOLFE STEADMAN.
2. The Herring Case—An Outlier, Karen Ramey Burns.
3. Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Identification in Homicide
Identification: A Case Study from New York, Douglas H. Ubelaker,
Mary Jumbelic, Mark Wilson, and E. Mark Levinsohn.
4. Urban Anthropology: Case Studies from the New York City Medical
Examiner's Office, Amy Zelson Mundorff.
5. Multiple Points of Similarity, Dawnie Wolfe Steadman and Lyle
W. Konigsberg.
6. Trials in Court: The Forensic Anthropologist Takes the Stand,
Kenneth A.R. Kennedy.
II. SEARCH AND RECOVERY, DAWNIE WOLFE STEADMAN.
7. Case Study: Love Lost and Gone Forever, David M. Glassman.
8. Unusual “Crime†Scenes: The Role of Forensic Anthropology in
the Recovery and Identification of American MIAs, Robert W. Mann,
Bruce E. Anderson, Thomas D. Holland, David R. Rankin, and Johnie
E. Webb, Jr.
9. The Contributions of Archaeology and Physical Anthropology
to the John McRae Case, Norman J. Sauer, William A. Lovis, Mark
J. Blummer, and Jennifer Fillion.
III. INTERPRETATION OF TRAUMA AND TAPHONOMY, DAWNIE WOLFE STEADMAN.
10. Look Until You See: Identification of Trauma in Skeletal Material,
O.C. Smith, Elayne J. Pope, and Steven A. Symes.
11. The Interface of Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Pathology
in Trauma Interpretation, Douglas H. Ubelaker and John E. Smialek.
12. Taphonomy and Time: Estimating the Postmortem Interval, Murray
K. Marks and Jennifer C. Love.
13. The Skull on the Lawn: Trophies, Taphonomy, and Forensic Anthropology,
P. Willey and Paulette Leach.
14. A Death in Paradise: Human Remains Scavenged by a Shark, Bruce
E. Anderson, Anthony Manoukian, Thomas D. Holland and William
E. Grant.
IV. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES IN FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY, DAWNIE WOLFE
STEADMAN.
15. Mitochondrial DNA: Solving the Mystery of Anna Anderson, Terry
Melton.
16. The Pawn Shop Mummified Skull: Discriminating Among Forensic,
Historical and Ancient Contexts, Dawnie Wolfe Steadman.
17. Incidental Findings—A Father's Love, H. Gill-King.
18. Small Bones of Contention, Sam D. Stout.
V. APPLICATIONS OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY, DAWNIE WOLFE STEADMAN.
19. Corpi Aquaticus: The Hardin Cemetery Flood of 1993, Paul S.
Sledzik and Allison Webb Wilcox
20. Planes, Trains and Fireworks: The Evolving Role of the Forensic
Anthropologist in Mass Fatality Incidences, Frank P. Saul and
Julie Mather Saul
21. Science Contextualized: The Identification of a U.S. MIA of
the Vietnam War from Two Perspectives, Ann Webster Bunch and Colleen
Carney Shine.
22. Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights, Mercedes Doretti and
Clyde C. Snow.
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