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Anthropophagy
Anthropophagy may refer to: * Human cannibalism, the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings ** Androphagi, an ancient Scythian tribe whose existence was recorded by ancient Greco-Roman authors ** Anthropophage, a mythical race of cannibals described by the playwright William Shakespeare ** Autocannibalism, the practice of eating parts of one's own body ** Child cannibalism, the act of eating a child or fetus ** Endocannibalism, a practice of cannibalism in one's own locality or community ** Exocannibalism, the consumption of flesh from humans that do not belong to one's close social group ** Medical cannibalism, the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases * Man-eating animal, an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior * Man-eating plant, a legendary carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal * Anthropophagic moveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Cannibalism
Human cannibalism is the act or practice of Human, humans eating the Meat, 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 animals consuming parts of individuals of the same species as food. Early modern human, Anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and ''Homo antecessor'' are known to have practised cannibalism to some extent in the Pleistocene. Cannibalism was occasionally practised in Egypt during ancient Egypt, ancient and Roman Egypt, Roman times, as well as later during severe famines. The Island Caribs of the Lesser Antilles, whose name is the origin of the word ''cannibal'', acquired a long-standing reputation as eaters of human flesh, reconfirmed when their legends were recorded in the 17th century. Some controversy exists over the accuracy of these legends and the prevalence of actual cannibalism in the culture. Reports describing cannib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manifesto Antropófago
The Anthropophagic Manifesto (Portuguese language, Portuguese: '), also variously translated as the Cannibal Manifesto or the Cannibalist Manifesto, is an essay published in 1928 by the Brazilian poet and polemicist Oswald de Andrade, a key figure in the cultural movement of Brazilian Modernism and contributor to the publication ''Revista de Antropofagia''. It was inspired by "''Abaporu''," a painting by Tarsila do Amaral, modernist artist and wife of Oswald de Andrade. The essay was translated to English in 1991 by Leslie Bary. Content Written in poetic prose in the modernist style of ''Une Saison en Enfer'' by Rimbaud, the ''Manifesto Antropófago'' is more directly political than Oswald's previous manifesto, ''Manifesto Pau-Brasil'', which was created in the interest of propagating a Brazilian poetry for export. The "Manifesto" has often been interpreted as an essay in which the main argument proposes that Brazil's history of "cannibalizing" other cultures is its greates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthropophage
An anthropophage or ''anthropophagus'' (from , "human-eater", plural ) was a member of a mythical race of cannibals described by the playwright William Shakespeare. The word first appears in English after 1460. Origin The Anthropophagi might have been inspired by the Scythian tribe of the Androphagi described by the Ancient Greek author Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopædia says "Many, some say most, of the ''Savages'' are ''Anthropophagi''." In literature The most famous usage of the Anthropophagi appears in William Shakespeare's ''Othello'': Shakespeare makes yet another reference to the cannibalist ''anthropophagus'' in the ''Merry Wives of Windsor'': T.H. White also features the Anthropophagi as Robin Hood's enemies in his novel '' The Sword in the Stone'': American novelist Rick Yancey incorporates the myths of the Anthropophagi in his 2010 release '' The Monstrumologist''. Pop culture In popular culture, the ''anthropophagus'' is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man-eating Animal
A man-eating animal or man-eater is an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the Scavenger, scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense. However, all three cases (especially the last two) may habituate an animal to eating human flesh or to animal attack, attacking humans, and may foster the development of man-eating behavior. Although humans can be attacked by many kinds of non-human animals, man-eating animals are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual diet and actively hunt and kill humans. Most reported cases of man-eaters have involved lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, and large crocodilians. However, they are not the only predators that will attack humans if given the chance; a wide variety of species have also been known to adopt humans as usual prey, including various bear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthropophagic Movement
The anthropophagic movement ( Portuguese: ''Movimento antropofágico'') was a Brazilian artistic manifestation of the 1920s founded and theorized by the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral. Expanding on the ideology of Poesia Pau-Brasil, also written by Oswald, which wanted to create an export poetry, the anthropophagic movement had the objective of "swallowing" (metaphorical nature of the word "anthropophagic") external cultures, such as the American and European, and internal ones, like that of the Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Euro-descendants and Asian-descendants. Overall, foreign culture should not be denied, but it should not be imitated. In his works, Oswald de Andrade ironized the Brazilian elite's submission to developed countries and proposed the "cultural absorption of imported techniques in order to elaborate them autonomously, and convert them into an export product". ''Manifesto Antropófago'' The ''Manifesto Antropófago'' (or ''Manifes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannibalism (other)
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Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism may also refer to: Types of cannibalism * * * ** ** ** ** ** * * Music * ''Cannibalism'' (album), 1978 compilation album by Can * " Capitalism is Cannibalism", 1982 song and EP by the British anarcho-punk band Anthrax * ''Intrauterine Cannibalism'', 1999 studio album by American death metal band Malignancy * '' Live Cannibalism'', 2000 live album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse See also * Anthropophagy (other) * Cannibal (other) * Cannibalization (other) * List of incidents of cannibalism This is a list of incidents of cannibalism, or anthropophagy, the consumption of human flesh or internal organs by other human beings. Accounts of human cannibalism date back as far as prehistoric times, and some anthropologists suggest that c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Androphagi
The Androphagi were an ancient Scythians, Scythian tribe whose existence was recorded by ancient Greco-Roman world, Greco-Roman authors. The Androphagi were closely related to the Melanchlaeni and the Budini. Name The name is a Latinisation of the ancient Greek name (), which meant "Man-Eaters." This name is a descriptive one based on this tribe's practice of human cannibalism, cannibalism, and their own tribal name is unknown. Location The Androphagi lived in the region to the east of the middle Dnieper, Dnipro river, especially in the valley of the Sula (Dnieper), Sula and some smaller rivers. The neighbours of the Androphagi were the Neuri to the west and the Scythians to the south. History Origin The Scythians originated in the region of the Volga-Ural steppes of Central Asia, possibly around the 9th century BC, as a section of the population of the Srubnaya culture containing a significant element originating from the Siberian Andronovo culture. The population of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autocannibalism
Autocannibalism, also known as self-cannibalism and autosarcophagy, is the practice of eating parts of one's own body. Generally, only the consumption of flesh (including organ meat such as heart or liver) by an individual of the same species is considered cannibalism. In line with this usage, ''self-cannibalism'' means the consumption of flesh from one's own body. While some texts use this strict definition, others use the term ''autocannibalism'' in a wider sense that includes the consumption of hair or nail (anatomy), nails from one's own body. Both humans and some animal species occasionally practice self-cannibalism. In humans, it can be a symptom of a mental disorder, but there are also a handful of people who have voluntarily consumed an amputated body part. In other cases, people were forced to eat parts of themselves as a form of torture. A similar term that is applied differently is ''autophagy'', which specifically denotes the normal process of self-degradation by cell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Cannibalism
Child cannibalism or fetal cannibalism is the human cannibalism, act of eating a child or fetus. Children who are eaten or at risk of being eaten are a recurrent topic in myths, legends, and folktales from many parts of the world. False accusations of the murder and consumption of children were made repeatedly against minorities and groups considered suspicious, especially against Jews as part of blood libel accusations. Actual cases of child cannibalism have been documented, especially during severe famines in various parts of the world. Cannibalism sometimes also followed infanticide, the killing of unwanted infants. In several societies that recognized slavery, enslaved children were at risk of being killed for consumption. Some serial killers who murdered children and teenagers are known or suspected to have subsequently eaten parts of their examples include Albert Fish and Andrei Chikatilo. In recent decades, rumours and newspaper reports of the consumption of aborted fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endocannibalism
Endocannibalism is a practice of cannibalism in one's own locality or community. In most cases this refers to the consumption of the remains of the deceased in a mortuary context. As a cultural practice Herodotus (3.38) mentions funerary cannibalism among the ''Callatiae'', a tribe of India. It is believed that some South American indigenous cultures, such as the Mayoruna people, practiced endocannibalism in the past. The Amahuaca Indians of Peru picked particles of bone out of the ashes of a cremation fire, ground them with corn, and drank them as a kind of gruel. For the Wari' people in western Brazil, endocannibalism was an act of compassion where the roasted remains of fellow Wari' were consumed in a mortuary setting; ideally, the affines (relatives by marriage) would consume the entire corpse, and rejecting the practice would be offensive to the direct family members. Ya̧nomamö consumed the ground-up bones and ashes of cremated kinsmen in an act of mourning; this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exocannibalism
Exocannibalism (from Greek ''exo-'', "from outside" and cannibalism, "to eat humans"), as opposed to endocannibalism, is the consumption of flesh from humans that do not belong to one's close social group—for example, eating one's enemies. It has been interpreted as an attempt to acquire desired qualities of the victim and as "ultimate form of humiliation and domination" of a vanquished enemy in warfare. Such practices have been documented in various cultures, including the Aztecs in Mexico and the Caribs and Tupinambá in South America. Historically, it has also been used as a practical expediency in especially desperate attritional or guerrilla warfare when the extreme hunger and the abundance of humans being killed coincide to create conditions ripe for cannibalism. Some have interpreted the practice as a form of predation rather than a ritual act, seeing perpetrator and victim in the roles of predator versus prey. Cultural practice Exocannibalism in the form of eating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Cannibalism
Medical or medicinal cannibalism is the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases. The medical trade and pharmacological use of human body parts and fluids often arose from the belief that because the human body is able to heal itself, it can also help heal another human body. Much of medical cannibalism applied the principles of sympathetic magic, for example that powdered blood helps bleeding, human fat helps bruising, and powdered skulls help with migraines or dizziness. Medical cannibalism has been documented especially for Europe and China. In Europe, thousands of Egyptian mummies were ground up and sold as medicine, since powdered human mummy – called mummia – was thought to stop internal bleeding and to have other healing properties. Reaching its peak in the 16th century, the practice continued, in a few cases, until the early 20th century. Fresh human blood, particularly from recently executed criminals, was also highly valued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
