Episode 79 - Not All Heroes Wear Capes: Countering Human Remains Trafficking
This week, Anna and Amber are joined by Dr. Damien Huffer, a bioarchaeologist and crime fighter. Dr. Huffer’s work was featured way, way back in Episode 36, “The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains,” and Anna and Amber are keen to learn more. How does one get into this line of work? What makes people want to own parts of other people? What’s being done to stop trafficking, and what lies ahead?
To learn more about this subject and Dr. Huffer’s work, check out:
Content note: Links contain images of archaeological human remains.
Alliance to Counter Crime Online
Bringing Them Home: The Repatriation of Priceless Human Remains and Artifacts to Cambodia (SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone)
Fighting trade in human remains antiquities (Saturday Paper)
This Archaeologist Uses Instagram To Track The Human Skeleton Trade (Forbes)
The Insta-Dead: The rhetoric of the human remains trade on Instagram (Internet Archaeology)
The Dirt Episode 36: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains
Photo credit: Twitter, @DamienHuffer