{"id":2526,"date":"2015-10-23T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2015-10-23T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:23:00","slug":"researching-a-red-market-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2015\/researching-a-red-market-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching a Red Market in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Smithsonian archaeologist to visit Carleton to speak about his work investigating the online trade in human remains on sites like Instagram.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These days, it is said that you can find anything online. The research of Dr. Damien Huffer, post-doctoral fellow at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/mci\/\">Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Museum Conservation Institute<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.si.edu\/\">Department of Anthropology<\/a>, as well as colleagues at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/\">University of Sydney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uts.edu.au\/\">University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalmuseum.mil\/\">National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Springs, Maryland, USA<\/a>, certainly adds clout to this theory.<\/p>\n<p>Huffer, who will visit Carleton on October 22-23, 2015 is sponsored by the<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/\">Department of History<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/\">Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture<\/a>, has been collaboratively researching the illicit trade of ethnographic and archeological human remains through online platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and eBay.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cred market.\u201d 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\u2019s red market.<\/p>\n<p>For a full article, see <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2015\/researching-the-red-market-in-the-digital-age\/\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithsonian archaeologist to visit Carleton 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. 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