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Professor Conklin is a cultural and medical anthropologist specializing in the ethnography of indigenous peoples of lowland South America (Amazonia). Her research focuses on the anthropology of the body, religion and ritual, health and healing, death and mourning, the politics of indigenous rights, and ecology, environmentalism, and cultural and religious responses to climate change. She teaches courses on anthropological theory, medicine and healing, indigenous peoples, and environmental issues. Her publications include Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society, "Body Paint, Feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and Authenticity in Amazonian Activism," "The Shifting Middle Ground: Brazilian Indians and Eco-Politics" (with ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 350 ratings · 24 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society 4.18 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Anthropology and the Politics of Representation by Gabriela Vargas Cetina (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz (Contributor), Beth A. Conklin (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“European medicinal cannibalism depersonalized and objectified the human being whose body parts were eaten. Along with this went the desocialization and individualization of the meaning of eating human substance. This kind of cannibalism served no larger communal or religious purposes; its sole objective was to enhance the well-being of the individual eater. Human body parts were commercial commodities, bought and sold for profit.”
― Beth A. Conklin, Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

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“Instead, psychoanalytic models have tended to rely mostly on analyses of the fantasies and aberrant behavior of people in western societies, where cannibalism is stigmatized and anyone who practices it is seriously deviant.”
― Beth A. Conklin, Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

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