Everett describes Wari funerary cannibalism ending in 1962 under state pressure

What was said

""I worked with a group um called the Wari. I I actually wrote a 540 page grammar of their language, co-wrote it. And um they were cannibals up until 1962.""

Everett says he worked with the Wari’ people and describes a form of funerary cannibalism that he claims continued until 1962, when the Brazilian state and missionaries intervened. The segment is presented as his recollection and interpretation of Wari’ oral accounts and ethnographic context, rather than newly produced documentation.