These Were People Once
eBook - ePub

These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

About this book

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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Yes, you can access These Were People Once by Damien Huffer,Shawn Graham in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Archaeology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781805390862
eBook ISBN
9781805393634

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Preface. They Sell What Online?
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1. The Lives behind the Photos
  10. Chapter 2. The Dead for Sale
  11. Chapter 3. Looking at Bodies
  12. Chapter 4. The Lies behind the Bodies?
  13. Chapter 5. Why Does It Matter?
  14. Appendix A. A Walk-through of the InstagramCLI Python Package
  15. Appendix B. A Walk-through of the PixPlot Python Package
  16. Appendix C. Text Analysis with Python and Jupyter
  17. Glossary of Terms
  18. References
  19. Index