cannibalism!!!

I just saw the movie "ravenous". It got me thinking of the human mind or then ancient instincts if we are discussing eating a human or certain parts of a human to nurish our hunger. In what periods of history, or in what twisted cases will a man kill another man with his fingers and teeth to live on himself.

Is that the ultimate proof that everyone eventually will look after themselves and the stronger makes it?

In certain cultures, eating human flesh is normal and may even be occuring today, but can you call that as a barbarian act? As i see it, that is not an atrocity but when a peasant in an 18th century French village for an example eats his wife of hunger, that is an atrocity. Do you see things that way? I am saying that if a  North American indian eats his enemy's heart or whatever part of his body, that is a part of  their culture and can't be called uncivilized or barbaric for it is normal in every aspect of their lives. The indian won't be afraid to go to battle in the fear of being eaten an he himself desires to eat the opponents heart. Then in the other hand when a soldier of the Grand Armee of Napoleon in the winter of 1812 in Russia is waiting for his comrade to die and then eat him then that is an act of terror or despair. As freaky it would be for us, we are all cannibals in the very end. 

Bring me some examples of cannibalism in world history and etc..... 

It was said that the Aztecs were devout cannibals, eating human flesh as it were normal food, but that's Spansh anti-Aztec propaganda.
It is possible though that sometimes human flesh was eaten in rituals. Furthermore it is possible that during the siege of Tenochtitlan there was cannbalism, but that's because the people were starving.

Ya, theres symbolic gestures like that such as eating the enemies eyes so as to gain his wisdom and see what he sees, etc. Recently, anyway, the only true cannibalism has occured in life or death situations, such as being stranded on a boat in the middle of nowhere. There was some English ship that went off-course and got lost, and part of the crew were forced to eat the dead. I think it was sometime in the 1800's, but i cant remember exactly when. But i think the men were charged and taken to jail, if i recall correctly.

 

And a Japanese student who ate a Dutch woman in France about a decade ago.
I think most recent acts of canibalism you'll find are bizare murders, whether ritual, or some one off fetish, rather than part of a wider cultural thing.

Which part will you eat first?