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| Their reputation as killers intimidated even the neighboring Jivaro tribe, a fierce band of headhunters whose children were required to recite a list of enemies each night as they went to sleep. How is it that wartime rape is regularly perpetrated by men who have massively different socialization experiences: imperial Japanese troops, Mongol raiders, Maori, Yanomamo, Jivaro, and New Guinean tribesmen, and American soldiers in Vietnam? Shrinking heads, or making tsantsa, an ancient practice associated mostly with the Jivaro tribe of South America, was believed to keep away avenging spirits. |
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