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Main Assignment

Please pick one of two questions to answer for your prompt this week.  Please observe the normal rules for word count, composition, spelling/grammar, and replies (i.e., write between 250-300 words, and reply to one classmate with 150 words).

1. Historically, how did reasons for cannibalism differ among Wari and Europeans?  Why have some anthropologists been skeptical that cannibalism ever happened?

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2. In what ways do Day of the Dead observances represent beliefs about death and the afterlife?

Readings

   READ: PP. 330-332 & Conklin, Norget, Metcalf