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Cannibalism has been occasionally practiced as a last resort by people suffering from famine, including in modern times.
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Cannibalism has also been implicated as a transmission mechanism for abnormal prions, causing the disease known as kuru, once found primarily among women and children of the Fore people in Papua New Guinea.
Cannibalism has been well documented around the world, from Fiji to the Amazon Basin to the Congo to Māori New Zealand.
Cannibalism has recently been both practiced and fiercely condemned in several wars, especially in Liberia and Congo.
Cannibalism has been reported in several recent African conflicts, including the Second Congo War, and the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Cannibalism has occurred in various places, among various cultures, and for various reasons.
Cannibalism has two peaks in the life of a chicken ; during the brooding period and at the onset of egg laying.
Cannibalism has been suggested to explain the apparent subsequent disturbance, though it is not widely accepted.
Cannibalism has also been reported.
Cannibalism has been reported in a number of different species.
* The legend of Alexander " Sawney " Bean has been chronicled in various media, including such print sources as Historical and Traditional Tales Connected with the South of Scotland by John Nicholson, 1843 ; The Legend of Sawney Bean, by Ronald Holmes, London, 1975 ; The Flesh Eaters, by L. A. Morse, Warner Books, 1979 ; and Cannibalism: The Last Taboo, by Brian Marriner London ; Arrow, 1992
He has also written a series of nostalgic books looking back at the decades from the 1930s-1950s, with a companion duo of quiz books, a book about Victorian magazines, " Penny Dreadfuls and other Victorian Horrors ", and one on cannibalism, " Man Eats Man: The Story of Cannibalism ", together with a small number of stories or features for Fleetway / IPC's war comics output between 1979 – 1983, before retiring during the 1980s.
Cannibalism and practiced
Cannibalism was practiced as recently as 2000 years ago in Great Britain.
Cannibalism was practiced, too: the bodies of enemies slain in battle, or in sacrifice, were piled up and cooked for festivals, such as the installation of chiefs or the launching of a great canoe.
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Cannibalism among " the savages " in Brazil, as described and pictured by André Thévet
Cannibalism was proven to have occurred in China during the Great Leap Forward, when rural China was hit hard by drought and famine.
Cannibalism was reported by the journalist Neil Davis during the South East Asian wars of the 1960s and 1970s.
Cannibalism, however, leads to a much lower number of eggs in hellbender nests than would be predicted by ovarian counts.
* The New Cannibalism is a phrase coined by anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes in 1998 for an article written for The New Internationalist.
Additionally, Instances of Cannibalism by the African Jaga were also more prevalent during this time frame, indicating an extreme deprivation of a primary food source.
All ten of Cannibal Corpse's albums, as well as the live album Live Cannibalism, the boxed set 15 Year Killing Spree, the EP Worm Infested, and the single " Hammer Smashed Face ", were re-released in Australia between 2006 and 2007, or finally classified by ARIA and allowed for sale in Australia.
* Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim McDowell
* Cannibalism, the eating of human flesh by another human
* The Complete Newgate Calendar-Sawney Beane: An incredible Monster who, with his Wife, lived by Murder and Cannibalism in a Cave.
Cannibalism, ritual human sacrifice and torture were all featured in what seventeenth century observers called the " quixilla laws " ( from Kimbundu kixila, or prohibition ) by which the Imbangala were said to live.
Cannibalism and people
Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.
In 1993, erotic fiction author Zheng Yi wrote the controversial book Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China, alleging “ systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and ' class struggle '” among the Zhuang people in Wuxuan County, Guangxi, during that period.
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Another new concept that flows from life cycle assessments is Energy Cannibalism.
Cannibalism and famine
Cannibalism during the Russian famine of 1921.
Cannibalism and times
Cannibalism is mentioned many times in early history and literature.
Cannibalism was alleged to have occurred during times when the supply ships failed to arrive.
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Cannibalism, Brazil.
Cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans in many parts of the world, continuing into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures, and to the present day in parts of tropical Africa.
Cannibalism is rare and is not illegal in most countries.
Cannibalism features in the folklore and legends of many cultures and is most often attributed to evil characters or as extreme retribution for some wrong.
Cannibalism in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic may have occurred because of food shortages.
Cannibalism was already a regular practice in Māori wars.
* All about Cannibalism: The Ancient Taboo in Modern Times ( Cannibalism Psychology ) at CrimeLibrary. com
Cannibalism of eggs is also considered to be a common occurrence.
Cannibalism was widespread throughout New Caledonia.
Cannibalism in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic may have occurred because of food shortages.
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Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.
Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;
The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.
The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.
The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.
There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.
Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.
But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.
The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.
But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.
In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
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