Cannibal by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes, Channel 4 Books,
£14.99, ISBN 0752219421.
HUMANS are omnivorous. They will even eat other humans. Not often, it’s true,
but anthropophagy is more common than most of us care to imagine. A succession
of maritime incidents in the 1700s, for example, made the idea of cannibalism
seem so normal that it became known euphemistically as “the practice of the
sea”.
But is it only people in extremis who eat other people? Has it ever
been a common practice? And why and when does it occur? Cannibal sets
out to answer these…
