Häftad, Engelska, 2027

These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

Av Damien Huffer, Shawn Graham

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-07-01
Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 236
Förlag: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781807682095

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Damien Huffer is a research fellow with the Wildlife Crime Research Hub, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide. An osteoarchaeologist and interdisciplinary illicit trafficking researcher, he was previously a lecturer in criminology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane. He has also lectured on topics in osteoarchaeology, paleoanthropology and forensic anthropology, most recently for the University of New England, Armidale, NSW. His current research investigates how and why heritage crime and wildlife crime overlap on and offline. He is one of the cofounders of the Alliance to Counter Crime Online.

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“An easy read on a difficult subject, its beautiful encapsulations of the tragic lives behind their commodified remains highlight the urgency of the authors’ project and public and commercial responses to it. The grim thread of mistreatment of the dead guides the reader through the labyrinth of Big Tech, how cynical tech companies and equally-cynical users are complicit in each other’s harms.” • Samuel Andrew Hardy, Cultural Property Criminologist

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