Gráda, Cormac Ó - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2013
Cannibalism is one of our darkest secrets and taboos. It is the ultimate measure of the resilience or otherwise of … civilizational processes to extreme conditions. How common was cannibalism in times of famine in the past? Both the nature of the … evidence for famine cannibalism and the silences about it challenge the empirical historian to the limit. After a review of the …