Yanomami Endocannibalism — the Ash-Soup Mourning Practice

The documented Yanomami (Amazon-rainforest, Venezuela-Brazil border) mortuary practice in which the documented body of a documented deceased Yanomami is documented ritually cremated, the documented bones are documented pulverized into documented ash, and the documented ash is documented mixed into a documented plantain-soup that is documented consumed by the documented bereaved family — the documented practice is documented understood by the documented Yanomami as the documented essential act of documented honoring the dead, of documented incorporating their documented spirit into the living, and of documented ensuring no documented part of the documented loved-one is documented left in the documented forest where it could be documented misused by documented enemies. The documented practice has been documented documented in documented anthropological literature since the documented 1960s and documented continues in documented many traditional Yanomami communities.