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Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian ~ Cannibalism has often been a taboo subject in Western culture In Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society Beth A Conklin brings cannibalism into a whole new light Conklin explains the funerary cannibalistic practices of the Wari and gives underlying causes as to why they participated in this

Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian ~ Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals

Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian ~ Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals As late as the 1960s the Wari Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their

Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian ~ As late as the 1960s the Wari’ Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives By removing and transforming the corpse which embodied ties between the living and the dead and was a focus of grief for the

Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian ~ Lowland South American funerary cannibalism mainly occurred in one of two forms people either consumed the ground roasted bones or bone ash or they consumed the cooked flesh Boneeating osteophagy seems to have been the more common practice It was concentrated especially in northern Brazil

Customer reviews Consuming Grief ~ Cannibalism has often been a taboo subject in Western culture In Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society Beth A Conklin brings cannibalism into a whole new light Conklin explains the funerary cannibalistic practices of the Wari and gives underlying causes as to why they participated in this

Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian ~ funerary cannibalism among the Wari’ of the Brazilian Amazon who practiced cannibalism into the 1960s In Consuming Grief she addresses traditional academic concerns regarding the social motivations for cannibalism from the ethnographically informed position that in the case of the Wari’ cannibalism makes sense

Project MUSE Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism ~ In Consuming Grief Beth A Conklin and her informants describe the ways in which funerary cannibalism was practiced until the 1960s by the Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest According to the author Wari practice of endocannibalism is embedded in the way social relations are constructed among the Wari—especially between consaguines and affines—and in how they see themselves as part of a world in which humananimal identity is fluid in this life as well as in the afterlife

9780292712362 Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism ~ Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society Paperback Beth A Conklin Published by University of Texas Press United States 2001