Pilgrims: an ethnography of sacredness.
Conducted by a tourist group visiting Egypt in March 2007, the ethnography studies the identity of belonging.
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The aim of this paper is to illustrate how subjectivity is constituted via exteriorities. Drawing upon the work of Levinas and others, it examines how voices irretrievably outside the subject call to us, on a pre-subjective level, welcoming us into various modalities of identity and belonging. In this sense, identity is conceived not as something we have but something we are given. Identity is a primordial response to various others, some of which are material and sensible and others wholly infinite and eternally beyond our perceptible horizons. The exploration of this call is conducted through an ethnography of sacredness focused around a ‘new age’ tourist group visiting Egypt in March 2007.
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