Anthropophagy

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
    • 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
    • Self-cannibalism, the practice of eating parts of one's own body
  • 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