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Vol 4 No 4: New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

Local virtue and global vision: The practice of eye donation in contemporary Sri Lanka

  • Bob Simpson
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.316
Submitted
November 27, 2015
Published
November 5, 2020

Abstract

A death radically rearranges kinship, debt, obligation, and responsibility, and it also triggers prescribed routines for mourning and material disposal of the corpse. It is into this complex and fraught unfolding of events that the rhetorics of corporeal