Description
Book SynopsisAn ethnography of mortuary cannibalism in a South American indigenous culture.
Trade Review"This is probably the most significant ethnography of cannibalism. Period... I expect this book to become a classic, an ethnography of exceptional depth and clarity by an anthropologist whose sensitivity and insight are apparent on every page." -Donald Pollock, Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
