Re: Anthropophagy

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: KEVIN MICHAEL KNIFFIN: "Re: Zapatistas (was Re:Foucault)"
• Previous message: Fabrice Braun: "ivory coast 2"
• Maybe in reply to: George Anketell: "Anthropophagy"
• Next in thread: May T. Young: "Re: Anthropophagy"

In article <60.8085.3724.0N1C2A1B@canrem.com> george.anketell@canrem.com (George Anketell) writes:
>Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
>Subject: Anthropophagy
>From: george.anketell@canrem.com (George Anketell)
>Path:
>stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV!fnnews.fnal.gov!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!panix!z
>ip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uun
>et!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!portnoy!canrem.com!george.anketell
>Distribution: world
>Message-ID: <60.8085.3724.0N1C2A1B@canrem.com>
>Date: Thu, 8 Dec 94 12:53:00 -0500
>Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario)
>Lines: 14

>I'm researching a childrens' book. Its subject is *the human body*.

>Point is, that when kids realise that we are meat, their first question is *What
>do we taste like?*
>I don't know the answer. Any quotes, references etc would be most helpful.

>e-mail please.

>Thanks.

I have heard that some South Seas cultures that practiced cannabalism refered
to roast human as "long-pig". Presummably from the likeness both of the
flavor as like pork, and fron the appearance of the dressed carcas as looking
like a pig prepared for cooking.

DuVal

• Next message: KEVIN MICHAEL KNIFFIN: "Re: Zapatistas (was Re:Foucault)"
• Previous message: Fabrice Braun: "ivory coast 2"
• Maybe in reply to: George Anketell: "Anthropophagy"
• Next in thread: May T. Young: "Re: Anthropophagy"