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11 - Known Unknowns: Forensic Science, the Nation-State, and the Iconic Dead

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2017

Christopher M. Stojanowski
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Arizona State University
William N. Duncan
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East Tennessee State University
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Studies in Forensic Biohistory
Anthropological Perspectives
, pp. 237 - 266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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