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Beth Conklin

Compassionate Cannibalism

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / Leave a comment

Returning again to the ethnography by Conklin that started my thinking on this issue, the experience of compassionate cannibalism of the Wari spoke to the collective experiences of saying goodbye in a way that is supported culturally and emotionally. This exemplified a place of grief where both individual and collective experience were privileged equally.

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