Korn, Radice and Hawes’ Cannibal: The History of the People-Eaters reviewed:

I once met an academic who was convinced that
there never had been any genuine cannibalism,
anywhere, ever.

All such stories
were a racist,
imperialist
construction of the
“other”, she
explained. She’d
had to have been
put in a pot and
boiled till she was
done to convince
her otherwise.
Such disbelievers
are now in retreat,
the authors of this
television spin-off
say.

Indeed, they propose that “cannibalism as a
feature of human behaviour is something that
has taken place throughout history, in every
continent on our planet”. Eating people is
commendably multicultural, then.
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