These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

Damien Huffer, Shawn Graham (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-086-2 (ISBN)

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People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade. The answers speak to how the 21st century understands and constructs ‘heritage’ more generally: each person their own expert, yet seeking community and validation, and like the major encyclopedic museums, built on a kind of digital neocolonialist othering of the dead.

Damien Huffer is an osteoarchaeologist and interdisciplinary illicit trafficking researcher. He was most recently Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is one of the cofounders of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface: They Sell What Online?

Chapter 1. The Lives Behind The Photos

Chapter 2. The Dead For Sale

Chapter 3. Looking At Bodies

Chapter 4. The Lies Behind the Bodies?

Chapter 5. Why Does It Matter?

Glossary of Terms

Appendix A: A Walk Through of the InstagramCLI Python Package

Appendix B: A Walk Through of the PixPlot Python Package

Appendix C: Text Analysis with Python and Jupyter

References

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-086-4 / 1805390864
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-086-2 / 9781805390862
Zustand	Neuware