具体描述
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. 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. 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. Beth A. Conklin is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University.
作者简介
Beth A. Conklin is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University.
目录信息
About the Artist and Illustrations
A Note on Orthography
Introduction
Part I: Contexts
Chapter One: Cannibal Epistemologies
Chapter Two: Wari' Worlds
Chapter Three: Cultural Collisions
Part II: Motifs and Motives
Chapter Four: Funerals
Chapter Five: Explanations of Eating
Part III: Bodily Connections
Chapter Six: Social Anatomy
Chapter Seven: Embodied Identities
Chapter Eight: Burning Sorrow
Part IV: Eat and Be Eaten
Chapter Nine: Predator and Prey
Chapter Ten: Hunting the Ancestors
Chapter Eleven: Transforming Grief
Afterword
Appendix A: The Story of Mortuary Cannibalism's Origin
Appendix B: The Story of Hujin and Orotapan
Notes
References
Index
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PartI Contexts PartIII Bodily Connection；本来只是打算看身体的部分，后来在某人的能好怎追问下研究了到底是怎么回事。。。
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评分PartI Contexts PartIII Bodily Connection；本来只是打算看身体的部分，后来在某人的能好怎追问下研究了到底是怎么回事。。。
评分废话不是一般地多，但真是……大开眼界
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