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Consuming grief : compassionate cannibalism in an Amazonian society / Beth A. Conklin.
Van Pelt Library F2520.1.P32 C56 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conklin, Beth A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pakaasnovos Indians--Funeral customs and rites.
- Pakaasnovos Indians.
- Cannibalism--Brazil.
- Cannibalism.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 285 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Cannibal epistemologies
- Wariʾ world
- Cultural collisions
- Funerals
- Explanations of eating
- Social anatomy
- Embodied identities
- Burning sorrow
- Predator and prey
- Hunting ancestors
- Transforming grief
- Afterword
- Appendix A: the story of mortuary cannibalism's origin
- Appendix B: The story of Hujin and Orotapan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0292712324
- 0292712367
- OCLC:
- 45052680
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