Endocannibalism among the Fore people

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Endocannibalism among the Fore people has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

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Jared DiamondAmerican geographer, historian and author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings"

  • Diamond describes Fore initiation in which boys moved into the men's house at six and had homosexual relationships with adult men before abruptly being married to girls.

    “when the boy reached the age of six, he then moved into the men's house where he developed a homosexual relationship with the adult men”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 2:13:20

  • Diamond recounts that a Fore worker left his expedition camp because he was obligated to eat the forearm of his deceased prospective son-in-law.

    “There's no way that he would fail to eat the forearm of his prospective son-in-law any more than you or I would throw our mother's body into the ditch”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:54:30

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  • #2549 - Jared Diamond

    The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 3, 2026 · 2 h 34 min

    Jared Diamond talks with Joe Rogan about leadership, the rise of world religions, the origins of writing, language, and cannibalism and Kuru in New Guinea.