Every society has its own traditions and cultural norms. Many traditions have been passed down from generation to generation for so long that they become the norms of culture. The Wari' are no different from others in that their traditions become cultural norms. In Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society, Beth A. Conklin travels to the Wari people to study disease and death before and after their contact with the outsider. There, she finds herself delving deeper into the Wari' way of life and how their norm of cannibalism came to be and how it was gradually eliminated by the outside world. With his time with the Wari' in South America, Conklin hoped to learn more about how diseases affect different cultures. Ultimately, she found herself studying an entirely different subject with one of the few remaining societies that could remember the days when they practiced both endo- and exocannibalism. While with the Wari', Conklin was able to connect the practice of cannibalism to burials in the rest of the world. Overall, she achieves her goal of studying culture while learning more about their different cultural norms. Between the years 1985 and 1987, Conklin spent a total of 19 months living among the Wari tribes. His main source of information was to ask the Wari' about their own culture and history. During return trips to Amazonian society in 1991, 1999, and 2000, Conklin was able to confirm the information gathered by interviewing different Wari' about their beliefs and cultural history. Among Conklin's interview subjects were dozens of elderly Wari' who remembered life before the outside world became a major influence. They are in the middle of the paper... at first glance, the picture is not always complete. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society is an interesting and well-written ethnography about the Wari people. Beth A. Conklin goes beyond her call and does justice to the Wari people by explaining their side of history to the world that has given them chills because of their standards. Consuming Grief allows readers to open their eyes to different cultures and not judge them at first glance. Beth A. Conklin demonstrates tolerance and acceptance of Wari standards even if she does not agree with them. Tolerance should be extended to all cultures of the world, everyone has their own standards and styles and everyone should be accepted and considered as if it were a norm in their own culture. Works Cited Beth A. Conklin. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society