POLITICS OF INDIGESTION (ANTHROPOPHAGY REVISITED)

Abstract

Anthropophagy was elaborated in the Brazilian context, starting in the 1920’s, upon the idea of violently devouring external references as a defensive strategy against cultural domination. It consisted in the critical assimilation of heterogeneous elements, implying choice, editing and transformation. The notion of indigestion seeks to analyse anthropophagy as a potentially mystifying concept, and therefore, problematic. From a few study cases, this reflection aims to briefly retrace some of anthropophagy historical and present tensions. Indigestion takes consensus as false coverings to hide conflicts in its appearance of docile and homogeneous sociability as the forces of miscegenation (in the 1920’s socio-political debate) and globalization seek to produce.

Keywords:
Anthropophagy;; Denilson Baniwa; Tarsila do Amaral; João Loureiro; Lyz Parayzo