Renato Rosaldo,while doing research amongst the Ilongots with his wife Michelle,could not initially understand how rage stemming from grief could result in them severing the heads of other people in order to throw away the anger.What personal experience caused him to better understand their practice?

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Renato Rosaldo's personal experience of the death of his wife Michelle helped him better understand the Ilongots' practice of severing heads as a way to express and cope with their grief and anger. He writes about this in his book "Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia."

Renato Rosaldo,while Doing Research Amongst the Ilongots with His Wife