1. Micronesians canoe-wrecked anywhere [near] [New Guinea] swam the other way" (21).
-The significance of this quote is that it shows how fearful everyone was of the place where the cannibals lived. No matter what, almost everyone would try to avoid meeting the cannibals and risking their lives.
2. "Even the feces would be eaten, mixed with edible ferns and cooked in banana leaves" (22).
-I believe this is significant because it shows that the cannibals would pretty much eat anything that was part of a human's body and find a way to make anything "appetizing" to them.
3. "One of the daughters doing the butchering cut around the neck...(and) the other daughter skinned back the scalp skillfully" (23).
-This is significant because it demonstrates how well the cannibals know how to prepare humans as food (the word skillfully) and that they have experience cutting up the humans and eating them.
4. "'Here is good food and we have neglected to eat it...Why should we throw away good meat? It is not right!'" (25).
-This quote is significant because it is quoting Fore women and their opinions on human flesh. It shows that they believe it is "good food" and what they're doing(eating human flesh) is proper/right.
5. "They did not eat lepers or those who died of diarrhea, but the flesh of women killed by sorcery they considered clean" (25).
-The quote here is significant because it shows that the cannibals didn't eat just anyone. They were, in a way, picky with the people they ate. If the person died of something bad, they wouldn't eat that person.
I agree with #4and5.
ReplyDelete#4 is important because it shows that the Fore women and children like eating the meat and they think the meat is "sweat"and "good".
#5 show that the Fore know who to eat and who not to eat in a way. But they do not know who has the hidden disease, kuru.
#4 is a really good quote because people don't just become cannibals for the heck of it; it must be due to the lack of in their environment that causes this result. http://www.cannibalworld.com/Insight_into_Cannibalism.html
ReplyDeleteWe might see them as either naive or horrific savages, but we also need to consider the external factors that result in this different way of life!
i agree with tracy that people become cannibals because they lack of food, so they began eating others
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