2007-03-28 18:21:17 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Those who are investigating have not returned.........with their findings.
Perhaps we will discover some partial findings.
2007-03-29 03:38:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's scarce. There is not a tribe in Africa that practices it in any formal sense. There are a few instances of humans rights violation against Congolese pygmies, who were reportedly mutilated and forced to consume their own body parts. However this was simply a sick innovation of the soldiers. Isolated voodoo cults, mainly on the west coast of Africa, may use human body parts in their black magic "juju"...potions or medications which may be consumed. This is a very underground thing, however.
In Romania, some remote villages anyway, where people believe in vampires (evil spirits who occupy the bodies of the deceased and prey on the living), they may cremate part of the body of the "vampire" and mix the ash with water and the supposedly affected people may drink some of it. This occured in other parts of Europe as well in past times.
New Guinea was the last bastion of widespread, actual, absolute cannibalism. It has been widely irradicated, however there is speculation that a few instances of it have occured in modern times, simply because there are very isolated tribes in certain areas and old traditions die hard. There are people in New Guinea who suffer from Kuru, a prion disease similar to mad cow, which is contractred by cannibalism. However, many of the people who suffer from this place their last consumption of human flesh in the 60's, which means the prions had a long incubation period.
2007-03-28 20:08:07 · answer #2 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is a tribe on the Amazon river that still practices cannibalism. find the documentary called "keep the river on your right". its about this guy that got lost while boating down the Amazon and ended up living with this tribe for like 30 some odd years. its pretty cool. this tribe was kinda weird though cause the men would only bang the women for child baring purposes and the rest of the time they would just bang each other.
2007-03-28 19:38:59 · answer #3 · answered by faceliftmafia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, in Papua New Guinea it definetly still exists. The tribes in the inner part of the country are very secluded. It's very hard to get there. Those tribes partially still practice cannibalism.
2007-03-28 21:26:20 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Zaius 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, The Philadelphia Eagles.
2007-03-29 05:43:43 · answer #5 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We generally refer to them as corporations.
ok, dry humor.
Look up Kuru and canabalism and you'll find the name of the tribe. Its a disease they get from eating people brains. I cant think of it right now.
2007-03-28 18:27:18 · answer #6 · answered by freshbliss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Papua New Guinea
2007-03-28 18:31:26 · answer #7 · answered by GOD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In today's Catholic church, symbolic cannibalism takes place. Catholics eat what is said to have been transubstantiated into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
2007-03-30 08:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by At Work 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The last cannibalistic act was reported in Germany two years ago.... Humans are not fit for consumption and if you ate one you would probably croak...
2007-03-31 11:28:03 · answer #9 · answered by ShadowCat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, come over for dinner. :)
In Africa it is more of a ritual to the few who do practice it, but it does exist as a form of devouring your enemy in total.
2007-03-28 18:25:33 · answer #10 · answered by Malthusian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋