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    True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People...

    THE CORRECT WAY TO BE A CANNIBAL: Eat a rich or powerful person, a review of Hans Staden's 1557 True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World

    If you are ever captured in the jungle by a group of men and women who taunt you, insisting they will soon devour your flesh, there are a few tricks you can use to avoid this fate. First, you can pretend to be French. It will probably help if you wail in agony, like a baby, leading them to wonder if it might be better not to consume your pathetic body. A horrible sickness may lead them to the same conclusion, and if you can stop eating for long enough to get skinny, they may likewise lose their appetite. Use this extra time to try pretend that your God is angry and causing them misfortune, and that maybe you can cure diseases with your own powers. Most importantly, lie, lie, lie, and lie, all while learning the local language and customs, trying to make a deal with whomever you can.

    This, at least, is one lesson you can draw from Hans Staden's True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America (1557, Andreas Kolbe Publishing, with woodcuts), one of the foundational texts of South American identity.

    According to the book, Staden, a German soldier, was captured by members of the Tupinambá tribe in what is now Brazil, and lived with them for years, wily putting all of these tactics to use, before managing to wrangle an escape route back to Europe, where he landed a book deal. He describes in brutal detail the ritualistic executions of indigenous peoples and white Christians alike, and the magical ceremonies in which their flesh was torn apart and devoured by drunken natives. One old woman sucks raw brains out of a man's skull, just moments after he is killed. Staden, our hero, makes complicated alliances and double-crosses his allies, assumes false identities and then discards them, and concocts elaborate performances to trick the chief who owns him. It's a riveting tale.
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    I read the account of Jean de Lery when I was in college. He was a French Calvinist missionary that became familiar with the Tupi of what is now Brazil. He also mentions cannibalism. His account was published in 1578.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    THE CORRECT WAY TO BE A CANNIBAL: Eat a rich or powerful person, a review of Hans Staden's 1557 True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World
    This sounds like an apt description of the GOP and Drumph regime! They eat their own, ya know!


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    One old woman sucks raw brains out of a man's skull, just moments after he is killed.

    You should write a book telling people how you survived having your brain sucked out without being killed.
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    Can you corroborate any of this in any reputable North American ethnographic records?

    Apparently, where this has occurred in pre-Columbian South America, the driving force was starvation, not unlike the Donner Party in the Golden State in the 1800's, and others.
    https://newrepublic.com/article/1182...ate-their-dead

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    Can you corroborate any of this in any reputable North American ethnographic records?

    Apparently, where this has occurred in pre-Columbian South America, the driving force was starvation, not unlike the Donner Party in the Golden State in the 1800's, and others.
    https://newrepublic.com/article/1182...ate-their-dead
    Not sure why you're asking. Brazil is in South America.

    Cannibalism in Mesoamerica at least is well documented both historically and archaeologically.

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogs...4qx6QYd3TiE.97

    http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan...fg-sacrifice23
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Not sure why you're asking. Brazil is in South America.

    Cannibalism in Mesoamerica at least is well documented both historically and archaeologically.

    https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogs...4qx6QYd3TiE.97

    http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jan...fg-sacrifice23
    I'm asking because injuns is injuns is where you find them, and I'm not familar with any reliable accounts of pre-Columbian or precontact Native American cannibalism.

    I really haven't even read anything about Native cannibalism in extreme circumstances, as has been recorded for mankind generally, either, though it wouldn't surprise me if there were instances.

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    I have thought that cannibalism in the New World was very rare except in the face of starvation.

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    Europeans indulged in cannibalism until the 1900s, two new books claim chronicles cannibalism in Europe.

    Cannibalism in the New World, according to Why Cannibals Were on Every 16th-Century Map of the New World, was largely attributed to natives.

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