Die Anthropophagie

Richard Andree's Die Anthropophagie: Eine ethnologische Studie (translated as Cannibalism: An Ethnological Study), published in 1878, represents one of the most ambitious 19th-century attempts to examine the phenomenon of cannibalism from a rigorously ethnographic and anthropological perspective. Situated within the German tradition of Völkerkunde (ethnology), the work is emblematic of the era's scientific efforts to systematically catalogue and interpret the customs and behaviors of indige...