ANTH 2014 Chapter : Anthropology
Document Summary
Four sub disciplines: physical, cultural, linguistic, archaeology. What is forensic anthropology? known as a medico-legal context. Forensic : traditionally a debate team: a physical anthropologist who works in an applied area of physical anthropology in what is, they debate findings in public forums, courts of expert witnesses, main job. Identify the dead: report findings, describe trauma, recover remains from the field-meaning in a situation, make a statement about time since death, also known as postmortem interval. Medical examiner vs. coroner: medical examiners have coroners, louisiana just has a coroner system. Coroner: coroner system in louisiana, elected position: main job: mental health and unattended deaths, most are medical doctors: only a few are pathologists, hire pathologists to perform autopsies. If a medical doctor does not run, any citizen can. Death: death investigation determines cause and manner of death, cause: massive hemorrhage right temporal lobe blunt force trauma, manner homicide.
