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Technologies of Immortality, 'Good Endings', and Martyrdom in Urban Egypt
Ist Teil von
Ethnos, 2015-10, Vol.80 (5), p.630-648
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Taking the deaths of two young Egyptian men as its starting point, this paper traces 'technologies of immortality' and the possibilities they promise to the deceased and their status in the grave and afterlife. Extending Foucault's notion of 'technologies of the self' beyond its this-worldly focus, technologies of immortality aim to account for the rituals, practices, discourses, and images generated by community members to positively impact the fate of the deceased. Looking closely at 'death narratives', their repetition, circulation, and anticipated effects, I explore how the living collectively and performatively produce martyrs and their good endings in Cairo, Egypt.