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Buy One Get One: The Legal and Socio-Cultural Context of ‘Gifting’ Within the Australian Human Remains Trade Cover

Buy One Get One: The Legal and Socio-Cultural Context of ‘Gifting’ Within the Australian Human Remains Trade

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Volume 7 (2024): Issue 1
By: Damien Huffer  
Open Access
|Jan 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.137 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8362
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Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 9, 2023
Accepted on: Dec 23, 2023
Published on: Jan 15, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Australia,
Facebook,
human remains trafficking,
discourse analysis,
t-SNE,
Voyant Tools

© 2024 Damien Huffer, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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