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[Posted on behalf of Bill Waller. -- RBE] 
 
The reference may be to "A Plea for Cannibalism."  This was a weekly 
declamation exercise presented by Veblen at Carleton College referred to 
in J. Dorfman, Economic Mind in America, p. 31. 
 
There is a mention of the use of butter and unguent on the flesh in 
Africa as a form of conspicuous consumption in "The Economic Theory of 
Women's Dress." reprinted in Essays in our Changing Order, L. Ardroozi 
p.69 
 
Bill Waller 
Department of Economics 
Hobart and William Smith Colleges 
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