Aggressive and Affectionate Cannibalism

Cannibalism against enemies excites, this excites unbidden compassion. Aggressive cannibals take joy in the aggression and the compassion that sort of wells up from that identification tends to get in the way. The ritual efforts work too, to down play or purge or repress the familiarity of the meal funerary cannibalism of one's own rel ives. A rosco, our source for the bagesu of bageritish uganda a moment ago, writes about this. When a man died, his widows slept beside the body for two days before it was buried. They threw all kinds of body in the grave; they also threw grain upon the