Re [Sca-cooks] canibalism

Laura C. Minnick lcm at efn.org
Fri May 10 09:03:20 PDT 2002


At 08:32 AM 5/10/02 -0700, Anahita wrote:

>Last summer i read a book by an anthropologist called "The Man-Eating
>Myth". As far as can be determined there has never been a culture
>that engaged in cannibalism. The author examined reports going back
>to at least the 16th century.
<snip>

Bingo! That's the reference I was trying to remember! There's a really good
review on it in _Lingua Franca_ (dunno which issue) from about 4-5 years
ago. Really good book, solid research.

'Lainie
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