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Endocannibalism

Endocannibalism logo #21000 Endocannibalism is a practice of eating the flesh of a human being from the same community (tribe, social group or society), usually after they have died. == As a cultural practice == Herodotus (3.38) mentions funerary cannibalism among the Callatiae, a tribe of India. It is believed that some Native American cultures such as the Mayoruna people p...
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endocannibalism

endocannibalism logo #21003(from the article `cannibalism`) In some cases, the body of a dead person was ritually eaten by his relatives, a form called endocannibalism. Some Aboriginal Australians performed ...
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