Abstract Contemporary societies in Central Africa are known for their mourning ethos: communities often engage in endless lamentation upon the death of their loved ones. Yet people experience the death of a family member differently, depending on the deceased's sexual identification. While the death of a person identifying as heterosexual is generally felt as unbearable, that of a person identifying as homosexual is experienced as bearable. Based on field research conducted in Cameroon, this article analyses the way in which contemporary Central African societies experience the death of persons identifying as homosexual. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notion of homo sacer, the article argues that, as a result of the pervasiveness of anti-homosexual ideologies and procreationist doctrines promoting vitalis moralis or the ethics of life, childless persons identifying as homosexuals have become ‘homines sacri’ whose deaths arouse little grief from the community because their existence was perceived as ‘bare’ or useless even before their death.

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没有哀悼的死亡：中非的同性恋、同性恋和可承受的损失

摘要 中非的当代社会以其哀悼精神而闻名：社区经常在亲人去世时无休止地哀悼。然而，根据死者的性别认同，人们对家庭成员的死亡有不同的体验。虽然一个被认定为异性恋的人的死亡通常被认为是无法忍受的，但一个被认定为同性恋的人的死亡却被认为是可以忍受的。本文基于在喀麦隆进行的实地研究，分析了当代中非社会如何经历被认定为同性恋者的死亡。文章借鉴乔治·阿甘本的“同性恋者”概念，认为，由于反同性恋意识形态和生育主义教义的普遍性，提倡生命力道德或生命伦理，