# Elizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/elizabeth-anne-davis-artifactual-forensic-and-documentary-knowing-duke-up-2023 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/elizabeth-anne-davis-artifactual-forensic-and-documentary-knowing-duke-up-2023.md Podcast: [New Books in Anthropology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932) Published: 2026-09-02T08:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3437544503.mp3 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3437544503.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/episodes/elizabeth-anne-davis-artifactual-forensic-and-documentary-knowing-duke-up-2023 Duration seconds: 4011 ## Resource In Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke University Press, 2023), Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Davis follows forensic archaeologists and anthropologists who attempt to locate, identify, and return to relatives the remains of Cypriots killed in those conflicts. She turns to filmmakers who use archival photographs and footage to come to terms with political violence and its legacies. In both forensic science and documentary filmmaking, the dynamics of secrecy and revelation shape how material remains such as bones and archival images are given meaning. Throughout, Davis demonstrates how Cypriots navigate the tension between an ethics of knowledge, which valorizes truth as a prerequisite for recovery and reconciliation, and the politics of knowledge, which renders evidence as irremediably partial and perpetually falsifiable. Elizabeth Anne Davis is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. * This episode is part of a special collaboration between the New Books Network and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Together, we’re highlighting exciting new work in Europeanist anthropology—featuring authors from across the field, including winners of the William A. Douglass Book Prize and contributors to the European Anthropology in Translation series published by Berghahn Books. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthr… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/episodes/elizabeth-anne-davis-artifactual-forensic-and-documentary-knowing-duke-up-2023/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-anthropology-901932/elizabeth-anne-davis-artifactual-forensic-and-documentary-knowing-duke-up-2023.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.