Renato Rosaldos Grief and a Headhunters Rage
Renato Rosaldo “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage” touches on many issues that deal with the difficulties in fully understanding other cultures because of the limited possibilities objective observers holds. ... When Rosaldo’s brother died, Rosaldo begun to “grasp the force” (19) and understand how much grief a death in the family can cause. ... I understand how grief could overcome a person because of my past experience and my close relationship to my grandmother. However, even though I had such an experience and have lost someone so dear to me, I still can not comprehend the need to kill another human being in order to fulfill my grief. Although experience does allow me to partly understand the Ilongots grief, I still can not comprehend how this grief could allow one to slaughter another human being. ... Renato Rosaldo “Grief and a Headhunter’s rage” considers the difficulty in completely understanding and examining another culture through an objective eye.