ANTH 2051 : Test Material 1
Document Summary
Contexts- the wari were secluded until the contact, which changed their social standing. Wari are aware that outsiders look them down upon. Conklin wants to portray them as other than savage. The roads had a huge impact on the wari. Rubber tapping was already going on but the world. Funai was a brazilian institution was the national indian foundation. All this has already affected the wari before conklin got there. Funai would not give medical supplies if they found out you were eating bugs. Migrants also affected the wari because they came in for jobs. She is also interacting with other writers as well as well as the media/journalists/missionaries. She is trying to show them in a respected manner. Scholar (william arens) portrayed that cannibalism was made up. Conklin set up her book by saying that the wari were actually cannibals. They accept that they did eat people and tell why they did it.
