ABSTRACT
Although the literature on the origins and the current status of this particular application of forensic anthropology3 has substantially increased since the early 2000s (Doretti & Fondebrider 2001; Haglund 2001, 2002; Haglund, Connor, & Scott 2001; Hunter et al. 2001; Skinner, Alempijevic, & Djuric-Srejic 2003; Fondebrider 2004; Simmons & Haglund 2005; Skinner & Sterenberg 2005; Steadman & Haglund 2005), there is still a lack of understanding about the nature of the work and the contribution made by organizations and individual anthropologists outside the Anglo-Saxon world. As an example: work carried out by the two largest organizations in Latin America, EAAF and Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala, or FAFG (the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation), are mentioned as merely early and local developments (Simmons & Haglund 2005) (which in the case of EAAF is not true, since they have been working outside Argentina since 1986), incorrectly described (Klonowski, Drukler, & Sarajilic 2004), or ignored (Hunter 2002). This situation could have resulted from a couple of factors: a lack of knowledge regarding the activities of the discipline in other parts of the world or an almost non-existent bibliography that ignores other experiences and mostly concentrates on Anglo-Saxon activities in the Balkans. Because the Balkans is the only region where the majority of Anglo-Saxon forensic anthropologists have worked, this experience is taken as paramount and as a model to apply-for example, in Iraq, a popular destination for forensic anthropologists (Bernardi & Fondebrider 2007).
