Here is what appears to be an auto-review by Tim Taylor of Timothy Taylor's "The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death". Fourth Estate 2003.
Jacques Cinq-Mars
Unpalatable but true: cannibalism was routine
By Tim Taylor
Electronic Telegraph (Filed: 15/10/2003)
The science of cannibalism has just become respectable, as irrefutable bio-molecular evidence that we have eaten each other for millennia spurs renewed efforts by archaeologists, geneticists and anthropologists to find out when we started to do it, and why.
Ford Mondeo
With the Lendu and Hema militias currently cooking human hearts and livers under the eyes of UN observers in north-east Congo, and the abduction of children for food in North Korea, it is hard to believe that until recently academia was dominated by politically correct assertions that cannibalism did not exist. While no one denied that psychopaths and the very hungry do it sometimes, eye-witness accounts of routine cannibalism were ignored.
In his 1979 book, The Man-Eating Myth, the social anthropologist William Arens told a generation of scholars what they wanted to hear: stories of cannibal tribes were the racist slanders of white imperialist scientists.
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