Asli Zengin – Intimacy, Abandonment and Transgender Funerals in Turkey

Focusing on Sunni Muslim transgender people’s funerals and burial practices in Turkey, this talk discusses the relationship between mourning, intimacy and gender/sex transgression through the lenses of care for the dead. In funeral rituals, the state, religious actors, and members of kin and family hold the obligations and rights to the deceased, such as washing, shrouding, burying and praying for the dead body, which Asli Zengin characterizes as “care for the dead.”