11-01-2015, 05:25 AM
can someone explain to me how eating human parts is not cannibalism?
I would compare it to a "vegetarian" who occasionally eats meat. Most vegetarians would not consider someone snacking on smoked barbecue ribs wrapped in bacon a fellow vegetarian. Same with cannibals or "non-cannibals" who believe eating some human parts is not cannibalism.
Now as to cannibalism in the islands, ted is also incorrect about his assessment about Hawaiian civilization. There are four stages in human society:
Band
Tribe
Chiefdom
State
For ted to say Hawaii was a civilization and therefore no cannibalism existed (except snacking), it would require the compression of 1000 years of history into a one-size-fits-all explanation for the last millennium.
There was cannibalism in the islands, although not recently when Hawaii had entered a late chiefdom, early state period. This is no different from many other cultures and races. Cannibalism is not unique to specific cultures, it is something that can occur at an early point of development in any human society. It has been discovered all around the world by anthropologists from tens of thousands of years ago, right up to the 20th century in New Guinea.
I would compare it to a "vegetarian" who occasionally eats meat. Most vegetarians would not consider someone snacking on smoked barbecue ribs wrapped in bacon a fellow vegetarian. Same with cannibals or "non-cannibals" who believe eating some human parts is not cannibalism.
Now as to cannibalism in the islands, ted is also incorrect about his assessment about Hawaiian civilization. There are four stages in human society:
Band
Tribe
Chiefdom
State
For ted to say Hawaii was a civilization and therefore no cannibalism existed (except snacking), it would require the compression of 1000 years of history into a one-size-fits-all explanation for the last millennium.
There was cannibalism in the islands, although not recently when Hawaii had entered a late chiefdom, early state period. This is no different from many other cultures and races. Cannibalism is not unique to specific cultures, it is something that can occur at an early point of development in any human society. It has been discovered all around the world by anthropologists from tens of thousands of years ago, right up to the 20th century in New Guinea.
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