[UA] One case of cultural, non-funerary cannibalism...

[nick wedig]

> The Korowai People
> 
> Head-hunters drove Papuan tribe into tree-houses 

This brings up a rule of thumb that an anthropology professor told me:
you're far more likely to hear that the next tribe over practices
cannibalism than you are to find actual cannibals.  It's a propaganda
technique.

Even the Korowai, who do practice cannibalism as some form of capital
punishment, still claim that the tribe down the street are a bunch of
ravenous cannibals.

Mr. Teapot
symolic cannibal

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