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Hunting the Cannibals

BBC Radio 3
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Why should anthropologists suspend their professional judgment over cannibalism? Why should African tribesmen believe that anthropologists are cannibals? Why does the idea of man-eating flourish in popular fantasy? loan Lewis, Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, explores some possible answers.

Source: Radio Times

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