anthropophagy
/an-thruh-pof-uh-jee/US // ˌæn θrəˈpɒf ə dʒi //
食人族,食人者,食人魔,食人族的行为
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the eating of human flesh; cannibalism.
Examples
Surely it thematizes globalization and post-colonial cultural collisions, with a nod to neoconcrete anthropophagy?
Anthropophagy springs from different causes, and clothes itself in various forms.
Anthropophagy is not at all a prevalent custom among primitive tribes, as is generally believed.
As a fact, anthropophagy is certainly a decadent thing, not a primitive one.
To eat a creature which had become the peer of man in blood-guiltiness and in judicial punishment, would savour of anthropophagy.
These ideas, therefore, also probably represent the origin of anthropophagy.
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