Anthropophagy

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Anthropophagy may refer to:

• Human cannibalism, the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings
• Androphagi, an ancient Scythian tribe whose existence was recorded by ancient Greco-Roman authors
• Anthropophage, a mythical race of cannibals described by the playwright William Shakespeare
• Autocannibalism, the practice of eating parts of one's own body
• Child cannibalism, the act of eating a child or fetus
• Endocannibalism, a practice of cannibalism in one's own locality or community
• Exocannibalism, the consumption of flesh from humans that do not belong to one's close social group
• Medical cannibalism, the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases
• Man-eating animal, an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior
• Man-eating plant, a legendary carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal
• Anthropophagic movement, a Brazilian art movement of the 1920s founded and theorized by the poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral
• Manifesto Antropófago (Anthropophagic Manifesto), a manifesto published in 1928 by the Brazilian poet and polemicist Oswald de Andrade