Consuming grief: compassionate cannibalism in an Amazonian society

Abstract

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