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[Gerry Quinn]

From: Lee Berman 

> Gerry Quinn:
> >  In a few cases in insular Melanesia, indigenous flesh-markets existed.” And of course 
> > we know of cases when shipwrecked sailors or other groups of isolated survivors ate human flesh to 
> > survive.
 
> My statement about cultural prescribed cannibalism not being for the purpose of nutrition stands.
> Famine and starvation cannibalism occurs despite cultural proscriptions against it. And Melanesia
> includes the Papua-New Guinea tribes I gave as examples. Human flesh-markets there were selling 
> courage not protein, just as Chinese rhino horn dealers are selling sexual potency, not keratin 
> for nourishment.

“The esteem attached to despoiling enemies and a real fondness for the unusual food seem to have been the motives.” 
http://bits-n-pieces.hubpages.com/hub/cannibal

- Gerry Quinn
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