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Page 199
... practice of people eating when the only food available is human flesh . That kind of people eating occurs the world over from time to time regardless of whether the eaters and the eaten come from societies that approve or disapprove of ...
... practice of people eating when the only food available is human flesh . That kind of people eating occurs the world over from time to time regardless of whether the eaters and the eaten come from societies that approve or disapprove of ...
Page 217
... practice among village societies in many different parts of the world . The well - docu- mented case of the Maori of New Zealand provides some im- portant details . Maori war parties deliberately carried little food , living off the ...
... practice among village societies in many different parts of the world . The well - docu- mented case of the Maori of New Zealand provides some im- portant details . Maori war parties deliberately carried little food , living off the ...
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... practice of eating the corpses of dead relatives also does not occur among state - level societies , even in token form . Any deviation from the ban on consuming human flesh would weaken the commitment of the state to the eradication of ...
... practice of eating the corpses of dead relatives also does not occur among state - level societies , even in token form . Any deviation from the ban on consuming human flesh would weaken the commitment of the state to the eradication of ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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