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TUTORIAL PREPARATION: Submit a response, of no more than 200 words, to the following question: Why did Wari’ people lovingly consume the remains of their deceased kin?


Required readings:






Beth A. Conklin, Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom: Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society, American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 1, 1995, 75-101.






Shirley Lindenbaum, Cannibalism, Kuru and Anthropology, Folia Neuropathol, vol. 47, no. 2, 2009, 138-144.






Film: Kuru: The science and the sorcery (2009) Rob Bygott

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Soumi answered on Mar 06 2021
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WHY DID WARI’ PEOPLE LOVINGLY CONSUME THE REMAINS OF THEIR DECEASED KIN?
There is a traditional pra
ctice amongst the Wari’ tribe that they consume the remains of their deceased relatives as a sign of showing love to them, which is anthropologically, known as mortuary cannibalism. This is an unconventional practice and is not commonly found to be conducted in every community. However, the Wari’ people follow, or more frequently, used to follow this custom, because according to Conklin (1995), the practitioners accounted that this method actually helped them to be...
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