ANTA02H3 Quiz: Rosaldo- headhunters rage
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If you ask an older inglot man of northen luzon, philippines, why he cuts off human heads, he would say: His rage, born of grief impels him to kill his fellow human beings. He claims he needs a place to carry his anger. The act of tossing away the head enables him to vent and he hopes to throw his anger away by it. The emotional force of a death derives less from an abstract brute (savage) fact than from a particular intimate relation"s permanent rupture (break). It refers to the kinds of feelings one experiences on learning (ex: that the child just run over by the car is your own) Rather than speaking of death in general, one must consider the subject"s position within a field of social relations to grasp one"s emotional experience. Anthropologists don"t use terms such as force but rather thick description, multivocality, polysemy, richness and texture.
