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These Were People Once : The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters / by Damien Huffer and Shawn Graham

1st edition

New York, NY : [s.n.], 2023

1 Online-Ressource (260 p)

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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

Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly

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978-1-80539-087-9

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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