what year did cannibalism occur?

Answer 1

~You got any particular meal in mind?

Symbolically, it is still alive and well at Christian communions. What is it, after all, that one purports to eat and drink at communion?

In the case of the Donner Party, Franklin's Expedition, the Japanese troops under siege by US and/or Chinese forces in WWII, the various shipwreck victims, the Uruguayan rugby team and countless others like them, it was a matter of survival rather than religious superstition.

Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert Fish, Nicolas Claux and dozens (hundreds? thousands?) like them just had weird culinary habits.

The myriad of religions and cultures claimed to have practiced cannibalism may or may not have actually done so. The research is not all that good and the conclusions are frequently based on racism more than on evidence.

Then, of course there is the rest of the animal kingdom, but I assume you were referring to humans so I won't bore you with the trials and tribulations of my guppies.

Come back when you learn how to ask a proper question. In the meantime, Hannibal Lechter and I are having friends over for dinner.

Answer 2

That atrocity has been visited on people since history began and still happens today. There was no particular year in which it was worse than at other times. It was given exceptional notice in the popular literature of Europe during the period of worldwide exploration and exploitation of "new" lands that began as Columbus was making his historic voyages and continued through the Nineteenth century. Hey, it sold books to tell wild stories of missionaries being boiled in huge metal pots deep in the rain forests of the Amazon - despite the fact that there exists not a single documented instance of this actually happening.

Answer 3

There are tribes in the highlands of Papua New Guinea that still practice cannibalism. An Australian reporter spent a few weeks with them and even ate human flesh himself to show he was part of the tribe (and not the dinner menu). Early on he had to send his cameraman away because the locals were going to eat him otherwise. In their society you were either part of the tribe and ate what they ate or you were a potential meal and I guess the camerman thought he would be ignored if he had his camera - but no.

Answer 4

Last know cannibals where in Vanuatu less than 70 years ago.

Goolge it

Answer 5

1981?, lol

Answer 6

google jeffrey dahmer