Matters
of Life and Death
weekly
schedule.
Week 10 (Oct. 25-29)
Consuming
grief: ritual mortuary cannibalism among the Wari’
To be discussed: How does a culture’s understanding of the body and
the world affect what it views as the right way to deal with a corpse? What
purposes do rituals serve for the mourners?
Assignment: Course Log entry #3 (due Oct. 27)
Analytic essay on Mitford, “What the Public Wants” (due Mon., Oct. 25 by 11:59 PM)
Analytic essay on Ariès, "Forbidden Death" (due Mon., Oct. 25 by 11:59 PM)
Reading Assignment: Conklin, “ ‘Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom’: mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society”, pp. 75-101 (CR). (due by class time Mon. Oct 25)
Skills & Information:
To read for week 11:
Lock,
“Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America
and Japan”, pp. 207-244 (CR).
Callahan, “Death and the Research Imperative”, pp. 654-656 (CR).
Greenberg, “As Good as Dead”, pp. 36-41 (CR). (due by class time
Mon. Nov 1)
Assignments for week 11:
Analytic essay on Conklin, “ ‘Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom’: mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society” (due Mon., Nov. 1 by 11:59 PM)
Response essay on Ariès, "Forbidden Death" (due Mon., Nov. 1 by 11:59 PM)
Response essay on Mitford, “What the Public Wants” (due Mon., Nov. 1 by 11:59 PM)