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6 - The Influence of the Law on the Postmortem Narratives of Unknown Human Remains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2017

Christopher M. Stojanowski
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
William N. Duncan
Affiliation:
East Tennessee State University
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Studies in Forensic Biohistory
Anthropological Perspectives
, pp. 124 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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