Anthropophagy

Anthropophagy is the custom and practice of eating the flesh or internal organs of human beings. It may refer to:

Human cannibalism , the consumption of human flesh or organs by other humans. Human cannibalism has been observed in various contexts, including religious human sacrifices, warfare, and survival strategies in extreme conditions.
- Anthropophages , a mythical race of cannibals first described by Herodotus.
- Child cannibalism , the act of eating a child or fetus ? a recurrent topic in myths, legends, and folktales, but also a documented practice in various societies, often connected with infanticide (the killing of unwanted infants) or with slavery.
- Self-cannibalism , the act of eating one's own flesh. This can be a symptom of a mental disorder, motivated by curiosity and a desire to shock, or an act enforced as a form of torture.
Man-eater , a human or animal who feeds on human flesh. More specifically, the term is used for non-human predators such as tigers, wolves, hyenas, crocodiles, and piranhas that attack humans to kill and consume them as a part of their hunting behaviour. Man-eating plants exist in legends, but not in reality.
Anthropophagic movement , a Brazilian art movement of the 1920s founded and theorized by the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral.
- Manifesto Antropofago ("Anthropophagic Manifesto"), a 1928 essay by the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade which suggests that Brazil's history of "cannibalizing" other cultures, absorbing their best elements, is a major strength and a way for Brazil (and South America in general) to assert itself against European post-colonial cultural domination. The manifesto has been regarded an important influence on the Tropicalia art movement.

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