cannibalism
English
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English cannibalism
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cannibalism (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisms)
- The act of eating another of one's own species.
- Hyponym: anthropophagy
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 31:
- Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.
- 2000 September 7, Henry Gee, “Eating people - is it bad taste?”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 May 2014:
- Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial. […] Considered globally, cannibalism should be less a moral issue than one of custom. I like Marmite, but then I have been raised on the stuff.
- 2022 August 23, Deborah L. Nichols, Patricia L. Crown, “9 Devouring Ourselves George J Armelagos”, in Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest[2], University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 218:
- HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . . However, I've done quite a bit of research on the history and anthropology of cannibalism and read enough accounts to have come up with a fairly good approximation”
- (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
- (linguistics) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
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[edit]act of eating another of one's own species
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cannibalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
