Em seu Antropofagia Zumbi, Suely Rolnik traça uma interessante reflexão sobre como a experiência brasileira, a partir dos cinco séculos de vivência canibal. Passando pelos hábitos de Guerra dos povos tupinambás, pela força do Manifesto Antropofágico na fundação das bases do modernismo brasileiro a partir de uma perspectiva digestiva, foi se criando uma forma de […]
Cannibal, Canibalia
In “Dead Capital,” Diana Taylor references Oswald de Andrade’s notion of cultual cannibalism, which asserts “that cultures remain strong by eating and digesting others” (Taylor 2). The metaphor of cannibalism is indeed an illuminating one, if a bit unsettling, in how it succinctly figures incorporated processes of hybridity, (re)appropriation, and consumption as cultural phenomena. The […]
Cannibalism, the “New” Pedagogical Diet
Viveiros de Castro and Oswald de Andrade know Marx and Freud, the ethnographic and blind discourses of “the savage” created in the XIX Century, and the critical paradigms that have shaped the anthropology and the production of cultural artifacts in the West, and by extension, in Latin America. I want to highlight the time distance […]
Cannibalist Translations
“Unlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language as a whole, taking an individual work in […]