Grief and Rosaldo's Rage She had not suffered much. Her death came and went quickly. Michelle was dead, gone forever at the blink of an eye. As her husband looked over her body at the bottom of a 65 foot sheer precipice, many ideas and emotions fluttered in his mind. Renato Rosaldo describes his experience at the site of the fatal accident, overlooking the body of his lifeless wife, Michelle Rosaldo: "I felt like in a …showed first 75 words of 1231 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1231 total…Rosaldo masterfully avoided becoming too self absorbed while giving his account of the Ilongot ritualistic beheading. Rosaldo posed the question, "Do people always in fact describe most thickly what matters most to them (470)?" After review of Rosaldo's essay, one will most likely conclude that the answer is no. Works Cited Rosaldo, Renato. "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage." Literacies. Ed. Terence Brunk Suzanne Diamond Priscilla Perkins Ken Smith New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. 469-487