Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

3 reviews

mslaureeslibrary's review

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Child death, Child abuse, Racism, Genocide, Sexual assault, Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Death, Confinement, Classism, and Antisemitism

librarymouse's review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Prior to reading this book, I had no idea that the American-backed genocide of Mayans in Guatemala, nor the Nazi-affiliated disappearings in Argentina ever happened. In this book, Alexa Hagerty does a beautiful and poignant job exploring the atrocities and her experience exhuming the mass graves left in their wake at a human level. She breaks down the walls built up in many western minds between the body and the person they were; the stories they still have left to tell, exploring how that mental block helps and hinders in archeological and anthropological study. The respect and interest Hagerty pays to working to understand things unknown to and outside the boundaries of consideration of much of western study, like that of Maya cosmovision, shows there dedication to both her work and the people she has come to care for - both living and dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Violence, and War

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Gore, Classism, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Violence, Physical abuse, War, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Confinement, Death, and Torture