Anthropophagy is the custom and practice of

eating Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbi ...

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. It may refer to: *

Human cannibalism Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to describe an ind ...

, when one human consumes the flesh of another **

Anthropophage An anthropophage or ''anthropophagus'' (from el, ανθρωποφάγος , translit=anthrōpophagos, "human-eater", plural el, ανθρωποφάγοι , translit=anthropophagi) was a member of a mythical race of cannibals described first by ...

, a member of a mythical race of cannibals ** Child cannibalism, the act of eating a child or fetus **

Self-cannibalism Self-cannibalism is the practice of eating oneself, also called autocannibalism, or autosarcophagy. A similar term which is applied differently is ''autophagy'', which specifically denotes the normal process of self-degradation by cells. While almo ...

, the act of eating one's own flesh *

Man-eating A man-eater is an animal that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has kil ...

, the consumption of human flesh by a non-human predator *

Anthropophagy (art) Anthropophagy is the custom and practice of eating human flesh. It may refer to: *Human cannibalism, when one human consumes the flesh of another **Anthropophage, a member of a mythical race of cannibals **Child cannibalism, the act of eating a chi ...

, an art movement

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