1 Animal the Cannibal: Nature’s Way?
2 It’s All Relative: Filial and Sibling Cannibalism
3 Size Matters: Sexual Cannibalism
4 Under Pressure: Stress-Related Cannibalism
5 Carnivore Cannibals: From Dinosaurs to Polar Bears
6 Skin Deep: The Weird World of Caecilian Cannibalism
7 Us and Them: Early Humans and Neanderthals
8 Myths of the Other: Columbus, Caribs and Cannibalism
9 Bones of Contention: Ritual Cannibalism
10 Take, Eat, This is My Body: Cannibalism and the Bible
11 Sieges, Strandings and Starvation: Survival Cannibalism
12 Culture is King: Origins of the Western Cannibalism Taboo
13 China: Beyond the Western Taboo
14 Skull Moss and Mummy Powder: Medicinal Cannibalism
15 Too Much to Swallow: Placentophagy
16 No Laughing Matter: Cannibalism and Kuru in the Pacific Islands
17 Apocalypse Cow: The Origins of BSE