Compare relationships between the living and the dead among the Wari, as described by Beth Conklin, to relations between the living and the dead among Oaxacans in rural Mexico, as described by Kristin Norget.

One theme that connects this week’s materials has to do with reciprocal relationships between the living and the dead. Compare relationships between the living and the dead among the Wari, as described by Beth Conklin, to relations between the living and the dead among Oaxacans in rural Mexico, as described by Kristin Norget. What broader understandings about human nature are involved in each culture’s rites surrounding death?

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