anthropophagists

Noun

anthropophagist (plural anthropophagists)

1. (rare) A cannibal.
   • The want of food became so urgent, that flesh was torn from dead human bodies; children were strangled by their parents, for the purpose of feasting on their flesh; and bands of express anthropophagists traversed the whole country.1819, “On Anthropophagism”, in The London Medical and Physical Journal, volume 41, page 215
2. (Brazilian culture) A follower or representative of the Manifesto Antropófago of Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet; one who advocates a "cannibalistic" attitude towards the appropriation of European culture.
   • The anthropophagists were out to celebrate life. They rejected the oppressive theories of Freud and advocated a reality "sem complexos, sem loucura, sem prostituições" ("Manifesto antropófago", Revista de Antopofagia, I) ["without complexes, without madness, without prostitutions"].1996, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría, The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature