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What are the aftereffects of migrants' violent death? Death as an odor, as a stench that must be stifled with mint, but cannot be completely cleansed from the air. What happens when memory becomes a smell which never goes away? In this work I explore the life-story of one of the protagonists of the first migrants' deaths and burials in Lampedusa island (one of the deadliest frontiers in the world) and reflect on the extent to which a strangers' death can become our death.
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This page is a summary of: The smell of bare death: Encountering life at the graveyard of Lampedusa, Anthropological Theory, October 2022, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/14634996221128104.
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