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1002:4.2.2 [2019/10/29 02:39] – [Two contradictions] Ryan Schram (admin)1002:4.2.2 [2019/10/29 03:22] – [The politics of the corpse] Ryan Schram (admin)
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 ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world   ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world  
-Module 4, Week 2, Lecture 2+Module 4, Week 2, Lecture 2  
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 ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au   ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au  
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-A few weeks ago, we discussed migration. At the time I said that many people operate with an assumption that their migration is circular (and contrary to the standard narrative of migration in the US, e.g. *An American Tail* and *An American Tail II: Fievel Goes West*). +A few weeks ago, we discussed migration. At the time I said that many people operate with an assumption that their migration is circular (and contrary to the standard narrative of migration in the US, e.g. *An American tail* and *An American tail II: Fievel goes west*). 
  
 When migrants die away from home, they may be repatriated to their homelands to be buried. So in a sense their migration is circular. In spite of their untimely death, their migratory journey still functions within an overall social system. When people's bodies are sent home to be buried, there is an unexpected parallel to another case of secondary burial we discussed on Monday. What is it?  When migrants die away from home, they may be repatriated to their homelands to be buried. So in a sense their migration is circular. In spite of their untimely death, their migratory journey still functions within an overall social system. When people's bodies are sent home to be buried, there is an unexpected parallel to another case of secondary burial we discussed on Monday. What is it?