Project Gutenberg 2025-06-18 Public domain in the USA. 154 Andree, Richard 1835 1912 g01001187 Die Anthropophagie $aLeipzig :$bVerlag von Veit & Comp., $c1887. Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Die Anthropophagie" by Richard Andree is an ethnographic study written in the late 19th century. It examines habitual cannibalism as a cultural practice—excluding famine-driven cases—across prehistory, classical sources, European folklore, and contemporary societies worldwide. The work assembles evidence, classifies motives (vengeance, ritual, magic, social law), maps geographic distribution, and suggests a gradual decline alongside expanding European influence. The opening of the study lays out this scope and method, then moves swiftly into evidence. It first debates prehistoric cannibalism via cave finds and cut-marked human bones (Belgium, France, Italy, Iberia, Germany), citing scholars like Spring, Garrigou, Regnault, Piette, and others to argue at least plausible ceremonial or nutritive consumption (notably brain and marrow). It next surveys “survivals” in myth and folklore—from Greek legends (Polyphemus, Tantalus, Atreus) and European witch tales to Slavic, Finnic, and Turkic stories—and shows living superstitions that attribute power or healing to human blood and organs, with modern cases of grave violation and battlefield organ-eating as grim parallels. A concise historical chapter gathers classical testimonies (Herodotus, Strabo, Porphyry, Sallust, Juvenal, Jerome) to bridge antiquity and the present. The regional survey then begins: in the Malay Archipelago it details the Batta’s legally sanctioned cannibalism and rarer practices among Dajaks and Philippine groups (Manobo ritual heart-eating, outcast Asuan families, head-taker customs), while on the Asian mainland it notes only sporadic, famine-driven or rumored cases. Entering Africa, it documents West African practices from Sierra Leone to the Niger Delta—including multiple eyewitness accounts of killings and open sale or cooking of human flesh in Bonny, Okrika, and Old Calabar—and in equatorial West Africa reports on the Fan, where cannibalism extends to trading in corpses and grave-robbing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/dieanthropophagi00andruoft 20220813235951andree 1887 de Reading ease score: 59.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. de Cannibalism GN Text Category: Archaeology & Anthropology 406742 2025-09-30T07:21:36.233388 text/html 373996 2025-06-18T08:25:11 text/html 463918 2025-09-30T07:21:43.341341 application/epub+zip 465557 2025-09-30T07:21:38.022372 application/epub+zip 248931 2025-09-30T07:21:37.000340 application/epub+zip 608298 2025-09-30T07:21:47.183345 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 586722 2025-09-30T07:21:42.702309 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 303930 2025-09-30T07:21:35.314385 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 284070 2025-06-18T08:25:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16246 2025-09-30T07:21:47.343290 application/rdf+xml 8349 2025-09-30T07:21:37.239351 image/jpeg 1794 2025-09-30T07:21:37.119334 image/jpeg 547327 2025-09-30T07:21:36.268370 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia