Anthropophagy

(Cannibalism)

In the News

 

Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557
as alleged by Hans Staden.
Harry J. Brown, "Hans Staden among the Tupinambas"
Wikipedia

anthropophagy
NOUN:		Inflected forms: pl. an·thro·poph·a·gi (-j) A person who eats human flesh; a cannibal.
ADJECTIVE:		anthro·po·phagic (-p-fjk) , anthro·popha·gous (-pf-gs)
ETYMOLOGY:		Latin anthrpophagus, from Greek anthrpophagos, man-eating : anthrpo-, anthropo- + -phagos, -phagous.
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cannibalism
NOUN:		1. A person who eats the flesh of other humans. 2. An animal that feeds on others of its own kind.
ADJECTIVE:		canni·bal·istic
ETYMOLOGY:		From Spanish Caníbalis, name (as recorded by Christopher Columbus) of the allegedly cannibalistic Caribs of Cuba and Haiti, from earlier Carib karibna, person, Carib.
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Antropophagy In the News . . .

• China tries to shut down Australian artist’s show promoted by image of cannibalistic Xi -- The Guardian (13 June 2023)
  
  
• Yellowjackets Showrunner Teases Even Worse Things Than Cannibalism In Season 2 -- Film Newsletter (30 March 2023)
  
  
• What is Sons of the Forest, the cannibal survival game that sold 2m copies in a day? -- The Guardian (10 March 2023)
  
  
• Being A Cannibal In The Fungi Zombie Apocalypse Is Just Dumb -- Film Newsletter (05 March 2023)
  
  
• Review: The Many Thrilling Flavors of a Full-Scale ‘Sweeney Todd’ -- The New York Times (26 March 2023)
  
  
• Yellowjackets Is Going to Get Even Darker Than Teenage Cannibalism -- CBR (22 January 2023)
  
  
• Taylor Russell Makes Her Own Luck -- W Magazine (9 January 2023)
  
  
• Monster: Jeffrey Dahmer: Did TV go too far in 2022? -- BBCCulture (29 December 2022)
  
  
• 2022 Was the Year of the Cannibal. What Does That Say About Us? -- RollingStone (28 December 2022)
  
  
• ‘I’m extremely interested in deviant behaviour’: Christina Ricci on cannibalism, chaos and childcare -- The Guardian (26 December 2022)
  
  
• From easily angered gnomes to child-eating giants, European folklore reveals a darker side to Christmas -- The Guardian (22 December 2022)
  
  
• Fans Are Eating Up "Bones And All" In Their Initial Reactions To The Film -- BuzzFeed (11 December 2022)
  
  
• Why is cannibalism no longer a taboo subject? -- The Rio Times (12 August 2022)
  
  
• Cannibal movies: the good, the bad and the indigestible -- The Independent (29 July 2022)
  
  
• French cannibal who murdered and ate a farmer ESCAPES and hits a woman with a stick in a random horror attack -- newsbeezer.com (21 January 2022)
  
  
• Mexico archaeologists reveal tale of cannibalism and reprisal from conquest -- The Guardian (19 January 2021)
  
  
• Cannibal sandwiches: Wisconsinites urged against eating traditional raw meat -- The Guardian (14 December 2020)
  
  
• Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage -- The New York Times (07 December 2020)
  
  
• How do we know what they ate? -- Australian Museum (20 October 2020)
  
  
• Which foods will survive the apocalypse? -- BBCfuture (31 March 2020)
  
  
• A Swedish scientist suggested the climate crisis could lead people to consider eating human flesh. It's not the first time a scientist has suggested the idea -- BusinessInsider (11 September 2019)
  
  
• UK Professors Attempt to Mainstream Cannibalism as Normal -- John Horvat II, csnnews (10 September 2019))
  
  
• Cannibalism is common in the animal kingdom, but for humans it's the ultimate taboo -- PHYS (16 August 2019)
  
  
• Human ancestors ate other humans because they were easier to catch -- NewYorkPost (10 May 2019)
  
  
• What Made Ancient Hominins Cannibals? Humans Were Nutritious and Easy Prey -- LiveScience (08 May 2019)
  
  
• Nibbled-on bones found in a cave revealed that our Neanderthal ancestors ate each other. Scientists may have figured out why. -- Business Insider (08 April 2019)
  
  
• Cannibals in Greek Mythology -- ThoughtCo (13 February 2019)
  
  
• 8 of History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers -- History (18 January 2019)
  
  
• 10 cute animals you didn't know were cannibalistic -- Marilyn La Jeunesse, Business Insider (19 December 2018)
  
  
• Cannibal Turned Himself Into Police Holding a Human Hand and Foot: 'I Am Tired of Eating Human Body Parts' -- Newsweek (14 November 2018)
  
  
• Teen baked her grandfather's ashes into sugar cookies and brought them to school, police say -- Los Angeles Times (16 October 2018)
  
  
• 10 Tasty Cannibal Movies That Will Leave You Craving -- Film School Regects (02 October 2018)
  
  
• What Does Human Flesh Taste Like? -- HuffPost (06 December 2017)
  
  
• If you were to eat a human which part would taste best? Would there be the equivalent to a fillet? -- Quora (08 December 2017)
  
  
• Dorey, Fran. “How Do We Know what they Ate?” Australian Museum. February 11, 2018. Accessed May 29, 2019. https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/science/human-evolution/how-do-we-know-what-they-ate/.
  
  
• Cannibalism: From Calories to Kuru -- Gastropod (24 October 2017)
  (transcript)
  
  
• 'Cannibal couple' in Russia admitted killing 30 - reports -- BBCNews (22 September 2017)
  
  
• Shock and fear amid South Africa cannibalism case -- BBCNews (28 August 2017)
  
  
• Men in South Africa court on cannibalism charges -- BBCNews (21 August 2017)
  
  
• Cannibals engraved bones of the dead -- BBCNews (10 August 2017)
  
  
• Stone Age Cannibals Engraved Marks on Human Bones -- LiveScience (09 August 2017)
  
  
• If you had to eat a human, which body part should you pick first? -- PBS (06 April 2017)
  
  
• How many calories is that human? A nutritional guide for prehistoric cannibals -- The Verge (06 April 2017)
  
  
• Prehistoric cannibalism not just driven by hunger, study reveals -- The Guardian (06 April 2017)
  
  
• Our ancestors were cannibals – and probably not because they needed the calories -- The Conversation (06 April 2017)
  
  
• Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic -- James Cole, Scientific Reports volume 7, Article number: 44707 (2017)
  
  
• Cannibal film Raw is not meant to make you sick, says Julia Ducournau -- BBCNews (05 April 2017)
  
  
• A Brief History of Cannibalism In Fiji -- culture trip (29 March 2017)
  
  
• Cannibalism: It's 'perfectly natural,' a new scientific history argues -- NPR (22 February 2017)
  
  
• From National Geographic: Cannibalism—the Ultimate Taboo—Is Surprisingly Common -- National Geographic (19 February 2017)
  
  
• Fall in Love With Cannibalism This Valentine’s Day -- Smithsonian Magazine (14 February 2017)
  
  
• Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. The Cannibals Among Us [a review of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt] -- The Wall Sreet Journal, February 10, 2017. Accessed September 22, 2019. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cannibals-among-us-1486761148
  
  
• Schutt, Bill. In Many Species, a Family Dinner Means Something Else. The New York Times. 30 January 2017. accessed September 7, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/science/cannibalism-animal-biology.html
  
  
• Preserved Māori Head Returns to New Zealand -- Smithsonian Magazine (16 July 2018)
  
  
• Autocannibalism is when you eat bits of your body --Rohan Mehra, BBCearth (13 December 2016)
  
  
• The Last Cannibals - Papua New Guinea (55:58 min.) -- Ben Fordham (02 December 2016)
  
  
• The people who ate each other -- BBCearth (12 October 2016)
  
  
• When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged [kuru] -- NPR (06 September 2016)
  
  
• Bello, Silvia M., Rosalind Wallduck, Vesna Dimitrijević, Ivana Živaljević, and Chris B. Stringer. Cannibalism versus funerary defleshing and disarticulation after a period of decay: comparisons of bone modifications from four prehistoric sites. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (25 August 2016).
  
  
• Is climate change causing cannibalism among seagulls? -- DownToEarth (10 August 2016)
  
  
• Reverend Thomas Baker: Eaten by a Cannibal Tribe in Fiji on July 21, 1867 -- cult of weird (21 July 2016)
  
  
  • Thomas Baker (missionary) -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Neanderthal Dinner: Reindeer With A Side Of Cannibalism -- NPR (14 July 2016)
  
  
• Belgian Neanderthals 'Were Eating Each Other 40,000 Years Ago' -- Guardian (06 July 2016)
  
  
• Cannibalism among late Neanderthals in northern Europe -- ScienceDaily (06 July 2016)
  
  
• China denies selling human flesh as tinned corned beef in Zambia in Africa -- BBCnewsbeat (21 May 2016)
  
  
• After the Plane Crash—and the Cannibalism—a Life of Hope -- NationalGeographic (03 April 2016)
  
  
• Friends For Dinner: Why Some Animals Become Cannibals -- National Geographic (05 March 2016)
  
  
• Armin Meiwes: Interview with a Cannibal documentary sheds new light on one of Germany’s most infamous murderers -- Independent (09 February 2016)
  
  
  • Interview with a Cannibal (Armin Meiwes) -- bTVDocs (47 min., 2007)
    
    
• Australian History: The Cannibal Convict -- Cassie Crofts, National Geographic (08 January 2016)
  
  
• One of the most bizarre rituals of the ancient world -- BBC News (03 December 2015)
  
  
• The people who drink human blood -- BBC News (24 August 2015)
  
  
• Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism -- Smithonian (27 July 2015)
  
  
• Cracked Bones Reveal Cannibalism by Doomed Arctic Explorers -- LiveScience (21 July 2015)
  
  
• 7 surprising facts about cannibalism -- VOX (22 July 2015)
  
  
• 'Pot Polish' on Bones from Franklin's 1845 Arctic Expedition Is Evidence of Cannibalism -- Forbes (01 July 2015)
  
  
• Eating human brains helped Papua New Guinea tribe resist disease, research shows -- Guardian (10 June 2015)
  
  
• Cannibalism: A History of People Who Eat People -- Discovery News (13 May 2015)
  
  
• Our ancestors really were cannibals -- BBCearth (16 April 2015)
  
  
• Strange Rituals or Cannibalism? Neanderthals Manipulated Bodies of Adults and Children Shortly After Death -- ScienceDaily (14 April 2015)
  
  
• 21 Times The Food On “Hannibal” Made You Want To Be A Cannibal -- BuzzFeed (30 January 2015)
  
  
• What does human meat taste like? -- The Independent (22 September 2014)
  
  
• South Africa cannibal: Gugulethu man 'ate love rival's heart' -- BBC News (12 June 2014)
  
  
• Human Flesh Looks Like Beef, But the Taste Is More Elusive: It’s like pork. Or maybe veal -- Smithsonian (03 February 2014)
  
  
• Vampire Cannibals: Real Ghouls Haunt Papua New Guinea -- LiveScience (11 October 2013)
  
  
• Will Humans Always Eat Humans? -- Discovery News (18 September 2013)
  
  
• Unmasked: doctor who was real life Hannibal Lecter -- The Times (21 July 2013)
  
  
• Morbid Monday: Meat is Murder - The Fiji Cannibal Fork -- Atlas Obscura (17 June 2013)
  
  
• Cannibal’s Fork from Fiji -- National Museum of Ireland (May 2013)
  
  
• Neanderthals: Extinction by BBQ? -- Discovery News (22 May 2013)
  
  
• Eating the Enemy: A Savage Act, But Not New -- Discovery News (14 May 2013)
  
  
• Our ancestors really were cannibals -- BBCcapital (16 April 2016)
  
  
• Human Ancestors Had Taste for Meat, Brains -- Science News (03 April 2013)
  
  
• Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Persistent Hominin Carnivory -- PLoS ONE (25 April 2013)
  
  
• 'Proof' Jamestown Settlers Turned to Cannibalism -- BBC News (05 May 2013)
  
  
• Survival cannibalism took place at historic Jamestown -- Past Horizons (05 May 2013)
  
  
• Consuming Colonists -- James Horn, The New York Times (03 May 2013)
  
  
• Cannibalism at Jamestown: Listening to the Bones -- Alice Park, Time (03 May 2013)
  
  
• Wintroub, Michael. "Cannibal Histories: Some Comments on Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman." Fiction and Film for French Historians, Volume 3, Issue 5, March 2013. Accessed February 25, 2023. https://h-france.net/fffh/classics/cannibal-histories-some-comments-on-nelson-pereira-dos-santoss-how-tasty-was-my-little-frenchman/.
  
  
• Of Cannibals, Kings and Culture: The Problem of Ethnocentricity -- Adam Etinson, The New York Times (17 February 2013)
  
  
• Defense in Cannibal Case Focuses on the Line Between Intent and Fantasy -- The New York Times (27 February 2013)
  
  
• Sigmund Freud and the Primordial Murder -- WiredCosmos (15 August 2012)
  
  
• 'An Archaeology of Desperation' Details the Donner Tragedy -- EurekAlert (27 October 2011)
  
  
• What the Donner Party Ate in Final Days -- Discovery News (10 October 2011)
  
  
• Cannibalism Confirmed Among Ancient Mexican Group -- National Geographic News (30 September 2011)
  
  
• Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling -- Discovery News (06 July 2011)
  
  
• What's Eating Us? Popularity of Cannibalism -- MSNBC (13 June 2011)
  
  
• Former Cannibal Tribe Lets Him Pull Up a Chair -- MSNBC (04 April 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Britons 'Drank from Skulls' -- BBC News (16 February 2011)
  
  
• Cheddar Cave Dwellers Ate Their Dead and Turned Their Skulls Into Cups -- Guardian (16 February 2011)
  
  
• Rare 1823 Wreck Found—Capt. Linked to "Moby-Dick," Cannibalism -- National Geographic News (11 February 2011)
  
  
• What does human meat taste like? -- The Guardian (08 September 2010)
  
  
• Liposuction Art – Man Uses His Own Fat for Food -- Impact Lab (June 3, 2008)
  
  
• Meatballs made from human fat, anyone? -- Reuters (18 May 2007)
  
  
• Orangutans cannibalise own babies -- BBC Earth News (21 May 2009)
  
  
• Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten -- Guardian (04 December 2003)
  

• All about Cannibalism: The Ancient Taboo in Modern Times (Cannibalism Psychology) -- CrimeLibrary.com
  
  
• Ancient Site Reveals Signs of Mass Cannibalism -- BBC News (06 December 2009)
  
  
• Arens, William. The Man-Eating Myth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
  
  
• Avramescu, Catalin. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. Princeton University Press, 2009.
  
  
• Barker, Francis, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen. Cannibalism and the Colonial World. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  
  
• Bones from a Cheddar Gorge Cave Show That Cannibalism Helped Britain's Earliest Settlers Survive the Ice Age -- Guardian (20 June 2010)
  
  
• Bones Give Peek Into the Lives of Neanderthals -- New York Times (20 December 2010)
  
  
• Brown, Paula, and Donald F. Tuzin (Eds.). Ethnography of Cannibalism. Washington, D.C.: Society for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 1983.
  
  
• Cannibalism -- The Fiji Museum - Virtual Museum
  
  
• Cannibalism -- FOOD AND CULTURE WORLD FOOD HABITS, Robert Dirks
  
  
• Cannibalism May Have Wiped Out Neanderthals -- Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News (27 February 2008)
  
  
• Cannibalism Theory Over Bone-Find -- BBC News (07 August 2009)
  
  
• Cannibal Theory Over Early Briton -- BBC News (07 August 2009)
  
  
• Chong, Key Ray. 1990. “Methods of Cooking Human Flesh in China.” Chapter Six of Cannibalism in China, pp. 145157. Wakefield, NH: Longwood Academic.
  
  
• Conklin, Beth A. Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society.University of Texas Press, 2001.
  
  
• Constantine, Peter. A History of Cannibalism: From Ancient Cultures to Survival Stories and Modern Psychopaths. Chartwell , 2009.
  
  
• Contested Signs of Mass Cannibalism -- Science News (03 December 2009)
  
  
• Diego Rivera, with Gladys March. "An Experiment in Cannibalism," in My Art, My Life: An Autobiography. NY: The Citadel Press, 1960.
  
  
• Donner Party Ate Family Dog, Maybe Not People -- Discovery News (15 April 2010)
  
  
• Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism? -- National Geographic News (20 March 2009)
  • ON TV Secrets of the Druids airs Sunday, March 22, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel.
    
    
• Eating with Cannibals -- National Geographic
  • National Geographic Special Explores Cannibalism in New Guinea -- Piers Gibbon (01 Aril 2011)
  • Eating with Cannibals, Part 1 -- National Geographic (01 July 2013)
  • Eating with Cannibals, Part 2 -- National Geographic (01 July 2013)
  • Eating with Cannibals, Part 3 -- National Geographic (01 July 2013)
  • Chatting with Cannibals -- National Geographic (22 March 2011)
    
    
    
• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Ch. 2 "The Meaning of Eating: Food as Rite and Magic," in Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. NY: The Free Press, 2002.
  
  
• FICTION / LITERATURE
  • Cannibalism in Literature -- Wikipedia
  • A Madman's Diary -- Lu Xun
  • "Survivor Type" -- Stephen King
  
  
  
• The first Europeans were cannibals: archaeologists -- Virginie Grognou, AFP (23 June 2009)
  
  
• Germany's Stone Age Cannibalism -- guardianweekly (25 March 2009)
  
  
• Geberth, Vernon J. 2009. The Real Mason Verger: The Man Who Fed His Face to the Dogs. Adaptation and expanded from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Scientific Meeting conducted February 16-21, 2009, to include information from the author’s Case File. Accessed 30 September 2019.
  
  http://www.practicalhomicide.com/Research/MasonVerger.htm
• Goldman, Laurence R. The Anthropology of Cannibalism. Praeger, 1999.
  
  
• Green, Dennis. Tastes Like Chicken: True Stories of People Eating People. St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
  
  
• Grisly Scene Gives Clues to Neandertal Family Structure -- Science (20 December 2010)
  
  
• Harris, Marvin. Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures. NY: Vintage, 1991.
  
  

• Harris, Marvin. Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture. Waveland, 1998.
  
  
• Human Meat Just Another Meal for Early Europeans? -- National Geographic News (31 August 2010)
  
  
• Interview with a Cannibal (Armin Meiwes) -- bTVDocs (47 min., 2007)
  
  
  • Armin Meiwes: Interview with a Cannibal documentary sheds new light on one of Germany’s most infamous murderers -- Independent (09 February 2016)
    
    
• Jones S., and H. Walsh-Haney H, and R. Quinn. Kana Tamata or Feasts of Men: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Identifying Cannibalism in Prehistoric Fiji. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 127–145, March/April 2015.
  
  
• FILM IN REVIEW; 'Keep the River On Your Right' -- 'A Modern Cannibal Tale' -- The New York Times (30 March 2001)
  
  
• Oldest Human Species Found: May Have Been Cannibal? -- National Geographic News (26 May 2010)
  
  
• People ... People Who Eat People -- NPR (30 October 2009)
  
  
• Petrinovich, Lewis. The Cannibal Within.  NY: Aldine de Gryter, 2000.
  
  
• Prehistoric People Ate Each Other, Bones Show -- Discovery News (13 December 2010)
  
  
• Raffaele, Paul. Among the Cannibals Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual. Harper Collins , 2008.
  
  
• The Reptilian Elite - Conspiracy Theories: Separating Fact from Fiction -- TIME (05 December 2018)
  
  
  • David Icke (redirect from Inter-Dimensional Reptilian Shape-shifters) -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Sanday, Peggy Reeves. Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  
  
• Secrets of the Druids
  National Geographic

"Remarkable new archaeological evidence is unearthed that reveals the truth about Druid sacrifice and tells the dramatic story of the Druids' bloody last stand against Rome's conquering legions."

• Spring Equinox Marked With Fire, Druids, More [PHOTOS] -- National Geographic News (20 March 2009)
  
  
• Schutt, Bill. 2018. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Chapel Hill; Algonquin Books.
  
  
• Sugar and the Specter of Cannibalism, Sugar and the Visual Imagination in the Atlantic World circa. 1600-1800. -- The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
  Accessed July 5, 2020. https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/sugar/pages/cannibalism.html.
  
  
• Tannahill, Reay. 1975. Flesh and Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex. (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Barnes and Noble, 1991.)
  
  
• Thomas Baker (missionary) -- Wikipedia
  
  
• What does human meat taste like? -- Martin Robbins, The Guardian (08 September 2010)
  
  
• What is the Meaning of CAnnibalism? -- The New York Times (09 December 1986)