As Europe plunges into the Great War, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowsky works in Papua and, speaking with a local cannibal about the war in Europe, the cannibal asks him, puzzled, how Europeans could consume such enormous quantities of meat. When Malinowsky explains that Europeans do not eat the bodies of their enemies, the cannibal looks at him in horror, commenting that they must be truly barbaric to kill without a specific physical need.
