ABSTRACT
Anthropology has had, until very recently, obvious problems in dealing with statements about cannibalism. This problem did not exist in the beginning of the 20th century when our general view of the world “out there” was impregnated with racial and cultural self-content. Then we believed it about almost all the others. This is expressed in a situation where universalism replaced racism so that they could not be different from us. As cannibalism in our culture has symbolized dehumanization, it made it hard to believe about other people in a world of equals.
