11-05-2015, 04:19 AM
Grim article from 2011 addressing a contemporary act of cannibalism in the south pacific "Stephan Ramin" interesting name for a cannibalism victim - some good background as well
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Anthropologists distinguish between survival cannibalism and ritual cannibalism, endocannibalism (the eating of one’s own dead) and exocannibalism (the killing of outsiders). Survival cannibalism can be traced back to prehistoric times. A two-million-year-old cranium was once found with cut marks, suggesting that the flesh was carefully peeled away from the skull.
Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, observed two types of cannibalism in Asia: the reverential eating of one’s own dead and the triumphant demolition of one’s enemies. It wasn’t, however, until Christopher Columbus’s expeditions in the late 1400s that the term became widely known. His report on the flesh-eating “Caribs” tribe in the West Indies appears to have been misinterpreted as “Canibs”, hence “cannibals”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel...qus_thread
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Anthropologists distinguish between survival cannibalism and ritual cannibalism, endocannibalism (the eating of one’s own dead) and exocannibalism (the killing of outsiders). Survival cannibalism can be traced back to prehistoric times. A two-million-year-old cranium was once found with cut marks, suggesting that the flesh was carefully peeled away from the skull.
Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, observed two types of cannibalism in Asia: the reverential eating of one’s own dead and the triumphant demolition of one’s enemies. It wasn’t, however, until Christopher Columbus’s expeditions in the late 1400s that the term became widely known. His report on the flesh-eating “Caribs” tribe in the West Indies appears to have been misinterpreted as “Canibs”, hence “cannibals”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel...qus_thread
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