Recently we have heard reports of things that have taken place during a war in Algeria: fetuses have been cut from the bodies of living women, people have been skinned, a man and a dog were beheaded and afterwards the killers swapped their heads and bodies. How can such behaviors be explained? Offer an explanation that makes use of Durkheim's concepts of "egoism"
and "anomie."

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The Answer of Recently we have heard reports of things that have taken place during a war in Algeria: fetuses have been cut from the bodies of living women, people have been skinned, a man and a dog were beheaded and afterwards the killers swapped their heads and bodies. How can such behaviors be explained? Offer an explanation that makes use of Durkheim's concepts of "egoism"
and "anomie."

Recently We Have Heard Reports of Things That Have Taken