“<i>Artifactual</i> is a brilliant exploration of knowledge production through forensic science and documentary filmmaking in postwar Cyprus. Raising penetrating questions about knowledge and the making of truth and evidence in anthropology, Elizabeth Anne Davis makes significant contributions to the anthropologies of missing persons, forensics, and visual anthropology.”

- Yael Navaro, author of, The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity

“The truth in situations of deep conflict may be impossibly elusive, yet people are often forced to reconcile with that opacity. In this beautiful and sensitive book, Elizabeth Anne Davis explores the reckoning with historical violence staged by forensic and documentary knowledge. Exhumed bones and archival images cannot settle a haunted past. But, as Davis shows, these artifacts and those who work with them can achieve something difficult and profound, marking out paths toward a plausible future.”

- Anand Pandian, author of, A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times