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SCB
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Some notes from this chapter;
- We recognize our bodies in the skeletons and the skeletons in our bodies.”
- Evidence vs personhood - inseparable, in contention - a balance between these in order to do the job well
- “You must touch bones, and be touched by them. You must be able to drink your tea with the dead.”
- politically tumultuous state By searching for the missing, they would be indelibly marked”
— Jul 31, 2025 08:48AM
- We recognize our bodies in the skeletons and the skeletons in our bodies.”
- Evidence vs personhood - inseparable, in contention - a balance between these in order to do the job well
- “You must touch bones, and be touched by them. You must be able to drink your tea with the dead.”
- politically tumultuous state By searching for the missing, they would be indelibly marked”
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SCB
is 52% done
The chunk I listened to today….wow. some highlights:
“We are the loads we carry, the looms we kneel in front of, the hours we spend scrolling. Life shapes us down to the bone.”
“Violence feels as possible and as ordinary as hand shaking or back slapping or lighting a cigarette”
“There is no stable place to land when confronting the worlds violence”
She also mentions Lexicon of Terror! Incredible book
— Apr 01, 2025 07:44PM
“We are the loads we carry, the looms we kneel in front of, the hours we spend scrolling. Life shapes us down to the bone.”
“Violence feels as possible and as ordinary as hand shaking or back slapping or lighting a cigarette”
“There is no stable place to land when confronting the worlds violence”
She also mentions Lexicon of Terror! Incredible book
SCB
is 28% done
“Archives are tools and weapons” - they found a secret police archive….insane….
Anyway this book is still so good
— Mar 25, 2025 07:17PM
Anyway this book is still so good
SCB
is 20% done
Two good quotes from this listen: “Justice is expensive” and “Memory is a battleground in Guatemala” - also, the authors description of herself feeling the humanity bleed through into her more technical anthropology and archaeology training is immersive, and just…good to hear, it’s really all about memory, I could go on and on fr
— Feb 27, 2025 02:14PM
SCB
is 11% done
I’m back to my roots (reading about the horrors of Latin American dictatorships)
Insane so far: “when put on the spot, Maxie and jose guessed that each body takes about a month of effort to exhume and analyze - at that rate, it would take nearly 4000 years of human effort to identify all the disappeared in Guatemala, seen like this, exhumation is seen as an epic undertaking”
— Jan 29, 2025 01:01PM
Insane so far: “when put on the spot, Maxie and jose guessed that each body takes about a month of effort to exhume and analyze - at that rate, it would take nearly 4000 years of human effort to identify all the disappeared in Guatemala, seen like this, exhumation is seen as an epic undertaking”
