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      The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram

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      Internet Archaeology
      Council for British Archaeology

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          There is a thriving trade, and collector community, around human remains that is facilitated by posts on new social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Etsy, and, until recently, eBay. In this article, we examine several thousand Instagram posts and perform some initial text analysis on the language and rhetoric of these posts to understand something about the function of this community, what they value and how they trade, buy, and sell, human remains. Our results indicate a well-connected network of collectors and dealers both specialist and generalist, with a surprisingly wide-reaching impact on the 'enthusiasts' who, through their rhetoric, support the activities of this collecting community, in the face of legal and ethical issues generated by its existence.

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                Journal
                Internet Archaeology
                Internet Archaeol
                Council for British Archaeology
                13635387
                2017
                2017
                :
                : 45
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Stockholm University
                [2 ]Carleton University
                Article
                10.11141/ia.45.5
                ce19ff8a-3bd1-4ef6-8b72-65e2c18dbc68
                © 2017

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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                Pre-history,Early modern history,Archaeology,Anthropology,Ancient history,History
                Pre-history, Early modern history, Archaeology, Anthropology, Ancient history, History

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