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Anthropology

Random Boomer

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2. You don't eat your own kin

Reply to rampartc (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 10:51 AM

Nov 2022

Even in the Donner party, there was a pattern to the deaths and cannibilizations. The survivors were family groups -- women, children and their attached male relatives -- while the victims were mostly males unattached to a family groups. They were "other" and thus vulnerable.

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starvation? rampartc Nov 2022 #1

You don't eat your own kin Random Boomer Nov 2022 #2

thank goodness the cases are so rare i can't dispute that observation rampartc Nov 2022 #3