Smithsonian archaeologist to visit 杏吧原创 to speak about his work investigating the online trade in human remains on sites like Instagram.
These days, it is said that you can find anything online. The research of Dr. Damien Huffer, post-doctoral fellow at the and , as well as colleagues at the , , and the , certainly adds clout to this theory.
Huffer, who will visit 杏吧原创 on October 22-23, 2015 is sponsored by the and the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, has been collaboratively researching the illicit trade of ethnographic and archeological human remains through online platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and eBay.
The practice of purchasing and selling the physical remains of those who have passed is but a subset of a much larger global emporium of the human body known as the 鈥渞ed market.鈥� The red market includes the sale of everything from human blood, organs and tissues to the trafficking of living human beings. Though there is a significant amount of academic study and effort put towards understanding the illegal channels of commerce used to buy and sell rare antiquities, Huffer explains that much less is known about the shadowy trade of the dead that exists within today鈥檚 red market.
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