Re: Taste of Human Flesh
Chris Amies (chris@kadath.win-uk.net)
Tue, 03 Jan 1995 18:28:15 GMT
In article <rad-0201951424210001@ttysb.tyrell.net>, Bob Daniel (rad@tyrell.net) writes:
>Check out "Conversations with the Cannibals - The End of the Old South
>Pacific" by Michael Krieger. On page 74 of the hard back:
>
>There was apparently much skepticism about ritual cannibalism ever
>existing by some scientists in the '70s. The accounts described by this
>author effectively challenges the skeptics.
>
>Check the book out if even mildy curious about cannibalism.
Is this book currently in print? I'd be interested, as my current
project involves a lot of research into the Pacific cultures. In
_Fatu-Hiva_, Thor Heyerdahl describes meeting the last living
ex-cannibal in the Marquesas Islands. He doesn't however tell us
anything about the taste. I remember in _Exploration Fawcett_
(though how much of that book is now discredited I don't know. I
read it _years_ ago) a comment about the taste of human flesh being
"something like monkey meat"; not much help if you've never eaten
monkey meat.
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