Human cannibalism is steeped in controversy, a subject that both fascinates and repulses.
Many anthropologists argue that cannibalism is an instinctive part of human nature - that
it was an institution in many, if not all, ancient cultures; that people will turn to
cannibalism without reservation in a survival situation; and that our very bones are
imprinted with evidence that we are creatures who eat our own.
Other experts vehemently disagree, denying that cannibalism played a major role throughout
history. They question eyewitness accounts and take issue with what archaeologists claim
is hard scientific evidence. 'Cannibals' gets to the heart of the debate by investigating
both well-known and little-known scenarios in which humans may have resorted to eating
other humans.
The taboo of cannibalism has been with us for centuries. We explore early accounts of
cannibalism, and how the reputed act and its practitioners were perceived by the Western
world, and to what extent we can rely on historic sources as truth.
Though European explorers were quick to slap the cannibal label on peoples they encountered
exploring the globe, we’ll reveal the extent to which they practiced their own form of
medicinal cannibalism back home.
We investigate some of the most common motivations for cannibalism beginning with survival:
in 1765 the crew of the Peggy draws lots to decide who shall be sacrificed to feed the rest.
A century later, Sir John Franklin's entire expedition perishes in the arctic, but not
before some resort to consuming human flesh. In 1883, Alfred Packer makes headlines worldwide
when he is convicted of murdering and cannibalizing five of his companions on a Colorado
gold-rush expedition turned winter survival catastrophe. Finally, we meet two of the survivors
of the 1972 Andes plane crash who, with over twenty other passengers, are forced to consume
the dead bodies of their friends in order to survive for over 70 days in the Andes Mountains [/QUin Argentina. OTE]
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