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Individual Cannibals do still exist, but Cannibalistic societies are pretty rare. The most well documented Cannibalistic Community was in the remote Jungles of Papua New Guinea near the Pacific.


They exist in small groups in the thick jungle. i feel the number has decreased.
No current recognized state or organization currently practices cannibalism. Several primitive tribes are occasionally found to continue some ritual cannibalism, but actual documented occurrences are hard to find.

Opportunistic cannibalism still exists, of course. In extreme situations, "normal" folks of non-cannibalistic societies have resorted to cannibalism for survival, but this is highly unusual, as there are considerably taboos against cannibalism in all modern societies. Individual instances of cannibalism amongst certain criminals and mentally-ill persons are not that unusual, however.

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Cannibalism was a common practice in Papua New Guinea as recently as the twentieth century, and there are some tribes in the wildest western region of Papua New Guinea which are said to still maintain the practice, such as the ethnic groups of the Korowai and the Kombai people. This is practised only as a form of tribal punishment. They do not headhunt strangers. As with many tribal groups in Papua New Guinea, they operate outside of the country's laws.
Culturally there are no cannibals, individually there are cannibals. There is a current practice to eat the placenta from childbirth, and this is a form of cannibalism; although not wide spread.

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The jury is still out that cannibalism as a ritual practice exists at all - or ever existed. (Albeit no one doubts that it has been practiced under conditions of starvation or perversion.) Although much folklore abounds, no credible sighting of cannibalism by anthropologists exist. As the science writer, Martin Gardner noted in his book Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Debunking Pseudoscience, that the skeptical case for why cannibalism is rare to non-existent it that the proposition of cannibalism often emerges from the imaginations of ethnographers and archaeologists, or it is rooted in scurrilous insults hurled between ethnic groups which have antagonistic relationships. He cites a 1979 book by William Arens entitled The Man-Eating Myth opened up the issue with a strong argument in favour of the belief that cannibalism has never been prevalent in any culture. Gardner notes that claims of institutionalized cannibalism have always been made by enemies, never the tribes themselves, and have usually proven hard to follow up. He refrains from taking sides but admits "My sympathies at the moment are with Arens."

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