Cannibalism refers to the phenomenon of eating one own
species for certain reasons that widely exists among living things of this
planet. In nature, animals eat the same kind of meat mainly for individual
survival and gene continuation. For human beings, although one should not deny
that cannibalism caused by a series of specific reasons is an objective
phenomenon, which runs through the whole history of this species. The validity
of the appalling rumors about cannibalism brought back by sailors and travelers
heard for a long time, and even ethnographic data collected by modern
anthropologists, need to be verified. Today, cannibalism for social and
cultural reasons is a thing of the past in most societies. This paper takes
Cowboy wash’s case as an example, relies on authentic ethnographic materials
from various perspectives and uses the cross-cultural comparison method of
anthropology. It aims at sorting out the possible causes of cannibalism from
the perspectives of history and social-cultural imperatives, and tries to sieve
through the relationship between violence and cannibalism.
Author(s) Details:
Zhang Yichi,
Graduate Student in Anthropology at the School of Sociology and
Anthropology of Xiamen University at Xiamen in the Fujian Province, P. R.
China.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/AEGIE/article/view/13584
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