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Fine old cannibals

机译:精致的老食人族

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The merest whiff of cannibalism in a story is enough to whet most journalists' appetites, but archaeologists and anthropologists are far more restrained. Although tales of man-eating people are found from Mexico to Papua New Guinea, actual instances of cannibalism are far harder to prove, according to Tim White, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Native folklore can be an unreliable source, since such stories often refer to the dim and distant past and may have been put about by those with an interest in undermining the putative cannibals in the first place.
机译:故事中最食人的味道足以唤起大多数记者的胃口,但考古学家和人类学家的束缚远不止于此。加州大学伯克利分校的生物学家蒂姆·怀特(Tim White)表示,尽管从墨西哥到巴布亚新几内亚都有食人的故事,但实际的自相残杀案例很难得到证明。土著民俗可能是不可靠的消息来源,因为这样的故事通常是指昏暗而遥远的过去,并且可能是那些首先有意破坏假定的食人族的人提出的。

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