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In Consuming Grief, Beth A. Conklin offers a sensitive and insightful ethnography of the Wari’ people of southwestern Amazonia, exploring their unique mortuary rituals centered around compassionate cannibalism. Conklin challenges Western assumptions about death and grieving, demonstrating how the Wari’s practice of consuming the roasted flesh of their deceased kin served not as an act of aggression but as a profound expression of love, compassion, and communal solidarity. By incorporating the deceased into their own bodies, the Wari’ sought to transform the pain of loss into a process of collective healing and social regeneration. Conklin meticulously examines the symbolic and emotional dimensions of Wari’ cannibalism, situating it within their broader cosmological understanding of personhood, kinship, and the relationship between the living and the dead. The book also explores the impact of contact with Western missionaries and the subsequent suppression of traditional mortuary practices, highlighting the complex interplay between cultural change, individual agency, and the persistence of indigenous values.

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