DEATH MOBILITIES: FUNERALS, TRANSLOCAL FAMILIES AND URBAN LIFE IN SOUTH SUDAN AND SUDAN

死亡流动：南苏丹和苏丹的葬礼、异地家庭和城市生活

• 批准号: 2619157
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2619157
• 关键词: DEATH; MOBILITIES; FUNERALS; TRANSLOCAL; FAMILIES

Death is pervasive and over the past half decade it has become a common part of everyday life for most South Sudanese family networks. Life-long and intergenerational experiences with violence, coercion and mobility shape howSouth Sudanese families perceive death and manage funerals. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, this project proposes to combine archival research in the Sudan Archive at Durham University and the Sudan and South Sudan National Archives with oral history and multi-sited ethnographic research to study how funerary and mortuary practices and meanings have changed since the mid-twentieth century when new patterns of conflict and mobility began to emerge, and compare this to how present-day urban-based, mobile and multi-lingual and multiethnic South Sudanese families manage funerals and postfunerary events across the two urban contexts of Juba in South Sudan and Khartoum in Sudan.Repatriation, exhumation and reburial are novel mortuary techniques used in the present-day context of displacement and rapid urbanisation and mobile dead bodies help spatially separated family networks maintain kinship connectionsacross multiple geographical locations and lived realities. South Sudanese people have been engaging in coercive and more voluntary forms of migration since the nineteenth century slave trade; as part of late-nineteenth and twentieth century colonial military and health campaigns and labour migration; and during post-independence civil wars. This study explores how present-day mechanisms for managing death draw on historical evolutions of mortuary and funerary practices in communities dealing with violent death, death 'out of place,' and anonymous death.

死亡无处不在，在过去五年中，死亡已成为大多数南苏丹家庭网络日常生活的一部分。与暴力、胁迫和流动性有关的终生和代际经历塑造了南苏丹家庭如何看待死亡和管理葬礼。本项目采用跨学科方法，建议将达勒姆大学苏丹档案馆、苏丹和南苏丹国家档案馆的联合收割机档案研究与口述历史和多地点人种学研究结合起来，研究自世纪中期开始出现新的冲突和流动模式以来，丧葬和丧葬习俗和意义发生了怎样的变化，并将其与当今以城市为基础的移动的、多语言和多族裔的南苏丹家庭在南苏丹朱巴和苏丹喀土穆这两个城市背景下管理葬礼和葬礼后活动。掘尸和重新埋葬是目前使用的新的停尸技术，流离失所和快速城市化的日常背景以及移动的尸体有助于空间分离的家庭网络在多个地理位置保持亲属关系，实自世纪奴隶贸易以来，南苏丹人民一直在从事胁迫和更自愿的移徙形式;作为十九世纪末和二十世纪世纪殖民军事和卫生运动以及劳工移徙的一部分;以及在独立后内战期间。本研究探讨了当今的死亡管理机制如何借鉴历史演变的太平间和葬礼的做法，在社区处理暴力死亡，死亡的地方，和匿名死亡。