cannibalism

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Cannibalism: A modern taboo

By Clare Murphy

BBC News Online

Armin Meiwes, the German jailed for eight-and-a-half years for eating an acquaintance, advised others not to follow his example.

The new world was frequently depicted as being rife with cannibals

But he is unlikely to be the last to sample human flesh.

After years of wrangling over its very existence, anthropologists increasingly concur that cannibalism is a tradition which has spanned both cultures and centuries, although the extent to which it has been practised remains an academic battleground.

General repugnance has met the case of Mr Meiwes, who has confessed to killing and eating a man he met after advertising for someone who wanted to be killed and eaten.

While modern societies have proven largely sympathetic to "survival cannibalism" - eating others on the grounds of nutritional necessity - many remain uncomfortable with the notion of the ritualistic consumption of human flesh - however consensual the act may be.

Demonising effect

The term cannibalism derives from the name of the West Indian Carib tribe, first documented by the explorer Christopher Columbus. The Carib tribe was alleged to eat others - it remains unclear whether they did indeed do so.

Early accounts of cannibalism by European colonisers have been widely viewed with suspicion on the grounds that allegations may well have been made in an effort to illustrate the necessity of civilising foreign peoples.

For cannibalism has frequently been used as a means to demonise others: Medieval Christian culture frequently depicted the Jew who had a taste for the blood of Christian babies.

But while anthropologists approach stories of cannibalism with caution, there do nonetheless appear to be substantiated examples of both ritualistic and survival cannibalism throughout history.

Murder and survival

The Aztecs are believed to have practised cannibalism on a large scale as part of the ritual religious sacrifice of war captives and other victims in a practice known as exocannibalism - the eating of strangers or enemies.

Earlier this year the United Nations accused rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo of cannibalising their enemies, and of forcing families of the victims to eat the organs of their relatives.

Mr Meiwes insists the act was consensual

Aboriginal Australians are meanwhile believed to have taken part in what is seen as a more benevolent form of cannibalism - endocannibalism - the consumption of friends and relatives, who are usually dead.

In this case, the body of a dead person was ritually eaten by his relatives as a means of allowing his spirit to live on.

History also provides ample examples of cannibalism during famine and other periods of severe shortages.

Survival cannibalism was made famous by the film Alive, based on the 1972 air crash in the Andes, when surviving members of the Uruguayan rugby team ate the dead to stay alive.

And somewhere between ritual and survival lies the case of the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, who engaged in cannibalistic practices from the end of the 19th century until the 1950s.

While the men of the Fore tribe supplemented their bean-and-sweet-potato diets with small game, women and children made up for their lack of protein by eating the brains of tribal members who had recently died.

Some scientists hold the practice responsible for incidences of a fatal brain disease, the symptoms of which are similar to the human form of mad cow disease, although other experts have disputed the link.

Breaking a taboo

In many countries, the consumption of human flesh is not itself a crime.

Perpetrators tend to be convicted on the basis of accompanying acts: Mr Meiwes, for example, was not charged with cannibalism, but with murder for "sexual satisfaction".

A number of high-profile cannibal cases have involved the eating of flesh in a sexual context.

Albert Fish, who has been called America's Bogeyman, raped, murdered and ate a number of children during the 1920s. He claimed to have experienced immense sexual pleasure as a result.

Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who murdered at least 53 people between 1978 and 1990, also indulged in cannibalism. His crimes were linked to sexual problems.

But what distinguishes Mr Meiwes' self-confessed sexual cannibalism from killers such as Fish and Chikatilo, or acts committed by peoples such as the Aztecs or the Congolese rebels, is the ostensibly consensual nature of his act.

Mr Meiwes met the man he was ultimately to eat, 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, in early 2001, after advertising on websites for "young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter".

Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes back to his home, where Mr Brandes agreed to have his penis cut off, which Mr Meiwes then flambeed and served up to eat together.

Mr Meiwes says he then killed Mr Brandes with his consent.

But the allegedly consensual nature of the act has done nothing to pacify German disgust.

Whether Mr Meiwes' victim was willing or not, eating another for anything less than necessity remains a taboo in the modern world.

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mr mews iz that ews?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3286721.stm

"I had the fantasy, and in the end I fulfilled it," he said. The fantasy first developed between the ages of eight and 12, he added.

Mr Meiwes spoke of how he felt ignored by his father, and longed for a good-looking younger brother - whom he would bind to himself forever by consuming.

Mr Meiwes advertised on the internet for a well-built male prepared to be slaughtered and then consumed.

"Slim and blond, that would have been the type", he told the court.

The victim, 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, answered the advert in March 2001.

Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes back to his home in Rotenburg, where Mr Brandes agreed to have his penis cut off, which Mr Meiwes then flambéed and served up to eat together.

Prosecutors say Mr Meiwes then stabbed the victim repeatedly in the neck and dissected the corpse

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chikatilo is a name of aztec sounding origin. sounds similar to the names of the aztec cities.

my uncle got me hooked on civilization 4 (video game). I allways pick the aztecs. their special bulding is a giant sacraficial alter instead of the standard court house. I love to catch spies or just take unruly slaves to the alter for canabalism. the alter is the best. i just imagine ten thousand on there knees chanting all over this pyramid structure, some crazy priest yelling in a crazy language as the victims heart is cut out for the worshipers, and is then canabalized.

it's how i keep my civalization from rebelling, slavery gets it done plus the fear keeps enemies thinking twice. I love it.

so i read up on my favorite pick the aztecs. they never had domestic livestock except for humman beings, only the royal family was allowed to consume the flesh of hummans. Montezuma was especially fond of the thies and heart.

I read about the Chichen Itza, a large pyramid used for sporting events.

I can see were the spanish at the height of the inquasition needed to destroy the aztecs. they were into some fu$%ed up sh*&. they made the temple of doom (Indiana Jones) look like a kid game. there is little in our nightmares that compares to the reality of the aztec horror. the atrocities the forced imbreeding causing mutations puposefully for strange mysticsysm to create monsters. the worshiping of false gods and the cannabilistic sacrafices in there name. yeah they needed to be wiped out. I mean what would you have done when confronted with that terror so far from home (Spanish)

but that terror is what i like to bring to the table in civ (Nerd) i know

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i too am researching the cannibalism of the aztecs...quite interesting

there is one ritual where they take a hottie young thing of both sexes, treat ya like a queen for a year...then kill and eat ya

beats just getting killed and eaten without the year of heaven first...cause that could have happened too...i would consider volunteering...

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Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes back to his home in Rotenburg, where Mr Brandes agreed to have his penis cut off, which Mr Meiwes then flambéed and served up to eat together.

O---Ka--y...

Fuckin' WEIRDOES!

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home video takes on a whole new meaning

And among the "highlights" will be the two-hour video that Mr Meiwes took of the whole incident on his camcorder, our correspondent says.

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http://en.sevenload.com/videos/lsvbPI6c-In...al-Armin-Meiwes

1.05.2007

Princess Potatoes

Ingredients:

2 lbs. shredded hashbrowns

2 c. sour cream

2 c. shredded cheddar cheese

1 can mushroom soup

1/2 c. butter, melted

1 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. pepper

Topping:

1/2 c. butter, melted

2 c. crushed Wheaties cereal

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350*.

Mix all ingredients (except Topping ingredients) and spread in a 9" x 13" pan. Mix butter and cereal together and sprinkle on top.

Bake for 90 minutes (1 1/2 hours).

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