Table of Contents

Introduction by Laurence R. Goldman Anthropophagy, Myth and the Subtle Ways of Ethnocentrism by Don Gardner Consuming Doubts: What Some People Ate? Or What Some People Swallowed? by Michael Pickering Anasazi Mutilation and Cannibalism in the American Southwest by John Kantner The White Man as Cannibal in the New Guinea Highlands by Alan Rumsey Asmat Cosmology and the Practice of Cannibalism by Kerry M Zubrinich Onabasulu Cannibalism and the Moral Agents of Misfortune by Thomas M. Ernst Indexes

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Explores how the practice of cannibalism serves the myth-making endeavors of all cultures, even those where cannibalism was not present.

About the Author

LAURENCE R. GOLDMAN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Queensland, Australia./e