Cannibals

Jun 07, 2004 16:20

( This one is slightly crap but amusing)

Barbarians

"I once talked to an old cannibal," the famed anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski once recalled, "who, hearing of the Great war raging in Europe, was most curious to know how we Europeans managed to eat so such huge quantities of human flesh. When I told him the Europeans did not eat their slain foes he looked at me with shocked horror and asked what sort of barbarians we were, to kill without any real object."

Malinowski, Bronislaw (1884-1942) Polish-born British social anthropologist, founder of Functionalism (the belief that all components of society interlock to form a well-balanced system) [noted for his fieldwork in the southwest Pacific (among the Trobriand Islanders of New Guinea, 1915-18), Africa, and Mexico; and for such books as Argonauts of the Western Pacific and Sex and Repression in Savage Society]

[Sources: M. Driscoll, ed., 5087 Trivia Questions & Answers]

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