Cannibal - Harner, Michael J

Cannibal by Harner, Michael J

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by Morrow, 1979

This novel by anthropologists Michael Harner and Alfred Meyer explores Aztec cannibalism in the context of the Spanish Conquest. It explores the thesis that Aztec human sacrifice and large-scale cannibalism was a necessary, pragmatic response to chronic protein deficiency. It argues this massive ritual consumption of human flesh arose due to a lack of domesticated herbivorous mammals in Mesoamerica.

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