Abstract

SALADO, M.  and  FONDEBRIDER, L.. The development of the Forensic Anthropology in Argentina. Cuad. med. forense [online]. 2008, n.53-54, pp.213-221. ISSN 1988-611X.

The development of the Forensic Anthropology in Argentina is related to the period of human rights violations that the country underwent between 1976 and 1983, and not to an academic decision or the initiative of the medical legal system. The necessity to investigate scientifically crimes committed by the State, with concealment of bodies, and not by individuals, did that the definition and the habitual field of development of the discipline in the Anglo-Saxon world, had to transform in order to include what habitually it is known as preliminary investigation of the disappearance as well as in emphasizing the direct relation between the forensic anthropologist and the relatives of the victims with its communities. The 25 years of trajectory of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), wich have worked on investigations in more than 35 countries of the world, exemplify the complex that is the forensic analysis of cases of political violence, with legal, religious and cultural connotations that do not have to be excluded from the work context.

Keywords : forensic anthropology; human rights; disappeared; relatives; political violence.

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