Ep. 58: Mortuary Rituals and Practices - The Hunger

On this episode, the gang discusses some mortuary rituals and practices from around the world. They discuss the Towers of Silence from India and Pre-Islamic Iran, and the Wari people out of the Amazonian rainforest of Brazil. Don't eat before you listen to this episode of Under the Pendulum. 

 

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Sources: 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/26/death-city-lack-vultures-threatens-mumbai-towers-of-silence

SHOKOOHY, M. (2007). The Zoroastrian Towers of Silence in the Ex-Portuguese Colony of Diu. Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 21, 61–78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24049363

Conklin, B. A. (1995). “Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom”: Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. American Ethnologist, 22(1), 75–101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/646047