Anthropophagy is the custom and practice of
eating
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herb ...
human flesh. It may refer to:
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Human cannibalism
Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to describe an ind ...
, when one human consumes the flesh of another
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Anthropophage, a member of a mythical race of cannibals
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Child cannibalism, the act of eating a child or fetus
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Self-cannibalism, the act of eating one's own flesh
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Man-eating, the consumption of human flesh by a non-human predator
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Anthropophagy (art), an art movement
See also
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Cannibalism (disambiguation)
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Hematophagy
Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα ' "blood" and φαγεῖν ' "to eat"). Since blood is a fluid tissue rich in nutritious pro ...
, the consumption of blood by certain animals
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List of feeding behaviours
Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin ''vorare'', meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγε ...
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