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1varielle
Mai 8, 2012, 12:14 pm

I was sure this group would have a dedicated thread, but couldn't see one. Here's the Smithsonian's take on the topic as in the use of corpses in medicine.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Gruesome-History-of-Eating...

2paradoxosalpha
Mai 8, 2012, 12:21 pm

Madsen's Confessions of a Flesh-Eater is a fine treatment of the matter.

4Randy_Hierodule
Mai 8, 2012, 1:35 pm

If you'd like to include the practice of autophagy, you should read the daftly conceived satire, The Committee. James Preston's The Cobra Event provides a colorful exposition of Lesch-Nyhan's disease.

6kswolff
Mai 8, 2012, 8:03 pm

At least it isn't condoned by the British Navy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evExHXFtNfQ

7madpoet
Mai 9, 2012, 1:55 am

It's actually surprising, considering how widespread cannibalism has been, in so many different societies, that it doesn't show up more in literature. I guess authors just found it distasteful (no pun intended).

8kswolff
Mai 9, 2012, 1:54 pm

7: Does transubstantiation count? Because then it could be considered a phenomenon a lot more widespread. Leave it to John Calvin's "symbolism and penance" to take the fun out of everything. What do you expect, he was a French lawyer.

9Nicole_VanK
Modifié : Mai 9, 2012, 2:09 pm

Well, personally I do think christians practice some form of ritual cannibalism (this is my flesh, this is my blood - come on). But I fear practicing christians are unlikely to agree.

But, ultimately, it's just a piece of bread and a sip of wine. So I don't think it counts a real cannibalism.

10Cynfelyn
Modifié : Mai 9, 2012, 5:11 pm

7.
It's actually surprising, considering how widespread cannibalism has been, in so many different societies, that it doesn't show up more in literature. I guess authors just found it distasteful (no pun intended).

William Albert Robinson, Deep water and shoal, would go with the pun, having inadverently eaten human flesh on Malakula in Vanuatu (then the New Hebrides) in 1930:

> What did it taste like? you ask. Like veal, as one of our well-known African explorers
> has stated? Or even like pork, which another has had the temerity to claim?
>
> If you'd like me to be absolutely truthful - which I know you don't, for it is awfully
> prosaic - I'd have to answer that the darn meat was so burnt and covered in ashes
> that it could have been almost anything. So if you must know what it tastes like to
> be a cannibal you will have to go there yourself.

11kswolff
Mai 9, 2012, 5:09 pm

9: Then they should practice harder, like Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein, proving that Wisconsin has its share of cosmopolitan and rural practitioners of this culinary affectation.

In the Introduction to the Cremaster Cycle, Wakefield calls Barney's 5-film cycle "autophagous," self-eating, since it creates a new biosexual mythos and then continually references itself.

12Randy_Hierodule
Mai 9, 2012, 5:46 pm

Christ did enjoin his disciples (and by rite of initiation, the gang which bears his name) to practice cannibalism. It's right there in the book.

13paradoxosalpha
Mai 9, 2012, 6:39 pm

Stranger in a Strange Land did its bit to literalize symbolic sacramental anthropophagy.

14kswolff
Mai 9, 2012, 8:07 pm

And one can't forget the performance art/films of Paul McCarthy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCarthy

And the ritualized violence of the Viennese Actionists like Hermann Nitsch

15Makifat
Mai 9, 2012, 9:16 pm

12
Which leads to one of my favorite punch lines: "Peter, EAT MY ASS!"

16Randy_Hierodule
Mai 9, 2012, 9:53 pm

That bit wasn't in there, was it? (re-read pile, Bible).

17paradoxosalpha
Mai 10, 2012, 8:55 am

18Randy_Hierodule
Modifié : Mai 10, 2012, 9:02 am

A skilled player, by that account (those urns at Naj Hammadi must have been the BCE equivalent of a bedside bottom-drawer).

19Nicole_VanK
Mai 10, 2012, 9:08 am

Actually those Nag Hammadi texts are early CE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library). Nitpicking - I know.

20Randy_Hierodule
Modifié : Mai 11, 2012, 6:37 pm

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21Randy_Hierodule
Mai 10, 2012, 10:05 am

Quibbler! Shall mere facts taint my otherwise sound and orthodox scholarship?

22Randy_Hierodule
Mai 10, 2012, 10:22 am

23Randy_Hierodule
Modifié : Mai 10, 2012, 3:42 pm

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24slickdpdx
Mai 14, 2012, 2:28 pm

This thread just came in handy in a dispute with a co-worker.

25Makifat
Mai 14, 2012, 11:59 pm

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How so? Did you hit him/her over the head with it?

26Randy_Hierodule
Mai 15, 2012, 8:05 am

If a jowly cubicle quartered type (the bipedal equivalent of a crated veal calf), I have heard that human face makes for excellent guanciale (a sort of aggrandized fatback, but ever so much more flavorful and expensive) - indispensable in bucatini all' amatriciana.

27Phlegethon99
Mai 15, 2012, 9:27 am

28Randy_Hierodule
Mai 15, 2012, 10:21 am

And a side of Sawney Beans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIXJWoESiOQ

29DavidX
Mai 28, 2012, 3:18 pm

30Nicole_VanK
Mai 28, 2012, 3:30 pm

Who is talking about fiction? Sure, there must be several false statements of such things. But that doesn't mean there are no true statements.

31kswolff
Mai 28, 2012, 10:22 pm

30: I think Ludwig Wittgenstein just facepalmed himself.

33kswolff
Juin 10, 2012, 10:22 pm

Luckily Andy Samberg has a useful PSA on this pressing topic:

http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2012/06/andy-sambergs-anti-cannibalism-psa.htm...

34kswolff
Juin 13, 2012, 6:58 pm

Who knew Rachel Ray, middlebrow doyenne of Food Network and daytime TV, is a fan of cannibalism, bestiality, and incest:

http://www.funnytypos.com/rachael-ray-cooks-her-dog-family-yummers/

35Randy_Hierodule
Juin 13, 2012, 7:31 pm

And I didn't think it possible she could turn me on any more intensely....

36kswolff
Juin 15, 2012, 5:02 pm

35: Then there's this:

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/01/03/2/1331/13311615/54/rachaelray_pinup400...

Her notorious FHM photoshoot. How fitting that a discussion thread focusing on cannibalism would end up on pin-up shots of Rachel Ray

Somewhere the ghost of Ben Hecht is smiling.

37vaniamk13
Août 5, 2014, 3:05 pm

Quondam Aleister Crowley associate Willie Seabrook elucidated on the consumption of "long pig" in Jungle Ways. Apparently the mention of a single anthropophagous meal in West Africa led to him being ostracized from "polite society" in the 1920s/30s. This supposedly acerbated his alcoholism, and combined with a failing third marriage, may have led to his suicide in the 1940s.

38kswolff
Déc 24, 2014, 4:51 pm

40arthurfrayn
Modifié : Juil 16, 2016, 7:33 am

Of course, there's the cannibalism in Satyricon.
Here's the film version for a glance (1:58:08) of "pure chewing satisfaction" as the used to say on an old gum commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qcjUlboFk0

41kswolff
Oct 19, 2018, 6:26 pm

Not sure which is more horrific: Nazis reduced to cannibalism in the Battle of Stalingrad or The Daily Mail as an organ of "journalism"? Both are pretty grotesque.

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