Practice of eating the flesh of a human being from the same community
Not to be confused with Endocannabinoid.
Endocannibalism is a practice of cannibalism in one's own locality or community.[1] In most cases this refers to the consumption of the remains of the deceased in a mortuary context.[2]
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Mexico: An Imperial Society. New York 1982. Dole, Gertrude E (1962). "Endocannibalism among the Amahuaca Indians". Transactions of the New York Academy of...
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