Cannibalism

A detailed Summary of Cannibalism

It is amazing how cannibalism is hardly accepted as an aspect that could have occurred in

past and present cultures. I consider cannibalism as interesting and am intrigued by the

idea of why it would occur. Though I do not believe cannibalism is a proper way of life, I

do believe that, under certain circumstances, reasons as to why cannibalism occurs could

make it more widely accepted, such as starvation. A proper example would be the Donner

Party. (Diamond 2000) However, Jeffrey Dahmer would be a great example of the

complete opposite, and it is because of him, cannibalism has a bad reputation and could

give a culture extreme humiliation and a "crude slur on their ancestors."(Preston 1998: 79)

When the great Southwestern civilization was recognized, the Anasazi were

suggested to be peaceful farmers with amazing art and architecture. In the center of this

civilization was Chaco, a structure that possibly could have been up to four stories high

and was made of stone. It was also named the Great House. Connected to Chaco was

many arrow-straight lines (roads) that led out to other sites. These people are accepted to

having no rule or class, there was no rich or poor, but that they lived in harmony with

it seems that these conclusions are only based on the fact that other cultures have been

killed, crudely dismembered, violently mutilated...every skull is smashed...every skull,

and scrapes just as those of the Anasazi, resulting in an effect called the "pot polish."

such an act. Would it not be difficult to witness events that occurred before 1150 AD?!

proves to be wrong and that the myoglobin was from an animal or from the human itself,

was able to identify thirty-eight of seventy-two sites as being those where cannibalism

argument was that there is no single anthropologist that could claim that he/she witnessed

comes to a society back in 1150 AD, I do not see how it can be any more surprising,

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