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Read the following extract and give your scholarly response that shows you have understood the context
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My own experience of bereavement and ritual fits the platitudes and catalyst model better
than that of microcosmic deep culture. Even a careful analysis of the language and
symbolic action during the two funerals for which I was a chief mourner would reveal
precious little about the experience of bereavement. This statement, of course, should not
lead anyone to derive a universal from somebody else’s personal knowledge. Instead, it
should encourage ethnographers to ask whether a ritual’s wisdom is deep or conventional,
and whether its process is immediately transformative or but a single step in a lengthy
series of ritual and everyday events.

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Quick explanation - Grief and a Headhunters Rage
February 22, 2017
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Meryl Duff

 Sometimes you want to kill someone in a blind rage because you're really sad. 
 
Renato Rosaldo’s article “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage” explicates his experience in the
Philippines with the Ilongot people, who have a custom of beheading people in celebratory rituals.
As the ethnographer attempted to understand the ways of the Ilongot, it was difficult to grasp the
reasons for going on hunts to behead others.
 
            Rosaldo explains first about the culture, and then dives into his personal experience with
grief. His wife died during their excursion in the Phillipines, and it was only then that he understood
the reasons for going on hunts to behead people out motivations that stem from grief. It is because
of this that he calls for a new ethnographic understanding, using personal experiences to influence
their findings.
 
            Personal experiences should not impact the understanding in a way that changes the
meaning of the ritual, custom, etc. Rather, these personal experiences should enhance the
understanding, as it did for Rosaldo. He was only able to understand the connection of rage to grief
after he experienced his wife and brother dying. To him, this ethnographic observation didn’t make
sense when coming from an Ilongot in a one-lined response. Then, the detached observer
disappeared and an emotional response helped to solve the mystery of the headhunter’s rage.
 
            Rather than just objectively recounting the events from his study, Rosaldo opens up with his
experiences. He doesn’t just gloss over them, but he uses the experiences of death and grief to
enhance his writing. Here, the ethnographer is personally and emotionally connected to the story.
Observation of rituals can lead to conclusions of the culture and the meanings behind symbols, but
he states that “descriptions should extend from well-defined rituals” to the everyday practices that
may go unnoticed by an untrained eye.
 
            To me, Rosaldo’s article asks the ethnographer to step into the culture and go deeper than
just observations. In his writing, he convinces the reader that these complex emotions experienced
by the headhunters are basically indescribable, and so difficult to understand that you can really only
comprehend them if you have experienced the same emotions that they have. I like his way of
describing his own story within the text. He is able to connect the reader to his emotions, and I feel
that it shows his journey from complete ignorance to a deeper understanding of the culture. He
attempts to relay this information to the reader through his account of his wife and brother dying.
This article shows that strict objectivity can sometimes limit someone’s understanding of a ritual.