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A 5 page research paper that looks at two essays. The writer argues that Renato Rosaldo's anthropological essay "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage" serves to illuminate the subject matter covered by Barbara Mellix and her studies in language, which are recounted in her essay, "From Outside, In." No additional sources cited.
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and could use standard English, her native tongue was definitely "black" English. In her essay "From Outside, In, Mellix explores the way that language served as the demarcation line between
black culture and mainstream culture, and how by making standard English her own, she broadened her horizons, but also changed her mental "position" within society. The transition that Mellix
experienced relative to language parallels the experience of Renato Rosaldo, which he recounts in his essay "Grief and a Headhunters Rage." Rosaldo is an anthropologist who spent years living with
a native tribe, the Ilongot, in the Philippine backcountry. Rosaldo states that in his early years with the Ilongot he frankly did not understand their custom of headhunting or what
purpose it served. He asked one tribesman and was told that headhunting gave the man a place "to carry his anger" and that the act of "severing and tossing away
the victims head" enabled the man to vent his anger over a bereavement (Rosaldo 1). "To him, grief, rage, and headhunting go together in a self-evident manner" (Rosaldo 1). At
this point in time, Rosaldo was in a cognitive position outside of that culture and could not relate to what the man was telling him. He freely admits that
he brushed the native explanation for headhunting aside. When Mellix was a child, mainstream American culture was, in some ways, as alien to her as the Ilongot culture was
to Rosaldo. She was an outsider looking "in" when she encountered those people, as did her "city" cousins, who used standard English. Language served as a barrier between her
psyche and feeling fully at home outside the black community. Mellix writes that, like her own children, she grew up considering black English and standard English to be
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