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 dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relativ 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 dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives. Download Configuration Manager Remote Control Client Viewer. By removing and transforming the corpse, which embodied ties between the living and the dead and was a focus of grief for the family of the deceased, Wari' death rites helped the bereaved kin accept their loss and go on with their lives. Drawing on the recollections of Wari' elders who participated in consuming the dead, this book presents one of the richest, most authoritative ethnographic accounts of funerary cannibalism ever recorded. Beth Conklin explores Wari' conceptions of person, body, and spirit, as well as indigenous understandings of memory and emotion, to explain why the Wari' felt that corpses must be destroyed and why they preferred cannibalism over cremation.

Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Trinity. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Xxxi + 285 pp., appendices, notes, references, index. $50.00 (cloth). View Notes - 150624370-Beth-Conklin-Consuming-Grief-pdf from ANTH 101 at CUNY Queens. CONSUMING GRIEF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK CONSUMING GRIEF COMPASSIONATE. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. In Consuming Grief, Beth A. Conklin and her informants describe the.

Her findings challenge many commonly held beliefs about cannibalism and show why, in Wari' terms, it was considered the most honorable and compassionate way of treating the dead. Read for a class on Dying and Death. This book does a great job of exploring a culture that processes death and loss in a dramatically different way from western societies. Conklin gives the whole cultural psyche surrounding death (and hunting and meat-eating) a very thorough looking-over, which adds a lot of depth to their cultural practices of cannibalism, although sometimes I found it a bit long-winded.