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A band of non-white natives dwelling far off the beaten path in some exotic locale who have ... unusual ... dietary requirements and complex social structures revolving around them, and who view the appearance of wayward white explorers in much the same way [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] would view a box of donuts arriving on his doorstep under its own power. In short, this is the [[I'm a Humanitarian]] trope bought in bulk so the storyteller can pass the savings on to you, and set in an exotic location for that special something extra. Expect to see lots of blood and Europeans tied to (or run through by) spits while turning over a fire.
The '''Cannibal Tribe''' trope plays into the remaining [[Acceptable Targets]] status of primitive peoples, pointing a finger at them and declaring how dangerous such vicious savages are to poor, innocent white people who don't mean anyone any harm. Note that in the very few real life examples that exist, when cannibalism wasn't a last-ditch response to a starvation scenario, it was usually reserved for ritual/religious purposes, such as the classic case of consuming (part of) a defeated enemy to gain his strength in an act of sympathetic magic. There are no reliable accounts of groups that "harvested" other nearby humans as a regular part of their diet, and [[Fridge Logic]] indicates that such a tribe would quickly either run out of "livestock" or be wiped out by its neighbors.
Compare [[Cannibal Clan]], which is more or less the inverse of this trope, where the cannibals are typically white-trash types suffering from an advanced case of backwoods degeneracy.▼
{{examples|Examples}}▼
▲Sub-trope of [[I'm a Humanitarian]]. Compare/contrast [[Cannibal Clan]], which is more or less the
* ''The Man From Deep River'' 1972 -- was the first Italian cannibal film and introduced the notions of white people being trapped in cannibal territory, exotic rituals, white-native sex and Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov.▼
* ''Last Cannibal World'' 1977 -- four plane passengers are stranded in a jungle, the brown-skinned members of the group die quickly, the main character is stripped, fondled and urinated on and watches the natives kill first one of their own using bull ants and then a crocodile. He escapes using Me Me Lai, who helps him survive before being eaten by the pursuing tribe.▼
* ''Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals'' 1977▼
== [[Film]] ==
* [[Slave of the Cannibal God|''The Mountain of the Cannibal God'']] 1978▼
* The entire [[Cannibal film]] genre, a slew of chiefly Italian movies made during the 1970s and 1980s which had a distressing sameness in their plots: Clueless white people go somewhere they shouldn't, and mostly end up eaten by natives, usually with lots of gore and nudity. The End.
* ''Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals'' 1978▼
▲** ''[[The Man From Deep River]]'' (1972
* ''Primitives'' 1979▼
▲** ''[[Last Cannibal World]]'' (1977
* ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'', 1980 -- Upon the film's release, the director and producer Ruggero Deodato was arrested on the charge that they had had several of the actors [[Snuff Film|murdered for the camera.]] Their names were cleared when they arranged for the "dead" actors to appear together on television. It has been suggested that ''The Blair Witch Project'' and ''The Last Broadcast'' appropriated their [[Mockumentary]] style from ''Cannibal Holocaust''.▼
▲** ''[[Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals]]'' (1977)
* ''Eaten Alive!'' 1980▼
▲** ''[[Prisoner of the Cannibal God]]'' (also known as ''Slave of the Cannibal God
* ''White Cannibal Queen'' 1980▼
▲** ''[[Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals]]'' (1978)
* ''Devil Hunter'' 1980▼
▲** ''[[Primitives]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]'', 1981 -- the natives capture two men who previously exploited them, along with three college students who have fallen in with them. The natives humiliate and kill all but one of them in slow, ritualistic fashion Hence the official & alternative movie title: ''Make Them Die Slowly''.▼
▲** ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]''
▲** ''[[Eaten Alive!]]'' (1980)
* ''Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story'' 1985▼
** ''[[White Cannibal
▲** ''[[Devil Hunter]]'' (1980)
▲** ''[[Cannibal Ferox]]''
* ''Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death'' 1989 is a satire of those kinds of film that is better than it sounds. It [[Moral Guardians|had to be]] billed as ''Piranha Women etc etc'' in the UK to avoid association with the genre. ▼
* There's a [[Cannibal Tribe]] in [[Nation]], but aside from being terrifying raiders who take human prisoners for slaves (and dinner, of course), they're really quite reasonable... and not nearly as terrifying as [[Complete Monster|First Mate Cox]].▼
▲** ''[[Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story]]'' (1985)
* Did you know? In 2003, director Bruno Mattei Directed & created 2 straight-to-video release Cannibal Films such as "Cannibal Ferox 3: Land of Death" & "Cannibal Holocaust 2: The Begining a.k.a. Mondo Cannibale". In Secret, It's the official sequel to the Original Cannibal Holocaust Movie. Both films are a Mix of Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Holocaust, Predator, plus every other cannibal films from the 70s & 80s imaginiable & imagine they're thrown into not one but two giant blenders. Once that's done, you've got yourself 2 Demonic & Tainted Cannibal Films Forged from the Blackest/Darkest Pits of Hell.▼
** ''[[Cannibal Ferox 2: Massacre in Dinosaur Valley]]''
* [[Monkey Island]] features a former Cannibal Tribe that has since turned towards vegetarianism.▼
** ''[[The Green Inferno]]'' (1988).
* [[Mayincatec]]: Anthropologist Marvin Harris, and author of the 1977 book: Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins. According to Harris, the Aztec economy would not support feeding them as slaves and the columns of prisoners were "marching meat". ▼
▲** ''[[Cannibal Women
* A regular threat in ''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyles the Lost World]]''.▼
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* Elements of this turn up in the South Seas Treasure Game from the 1981 novel ''Dream Park''.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
▲* There's a
▲* Elements of this turn up in the South Seas Treasure Game from the 1981 novel ''[[Dream Park]]'' by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* ''[[Monkey Island]]'' features a former Cannibal Tribe that has since turned towards vegetarianism.
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Mayincatec]]: Anthropologist Marvin Harris,
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