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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"anthropophagy"”.
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Anthropophagy and cannibalism in ancient Greek literature
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Eating People Is Might: Power and the Representation of Anthropophagy in Antiquity
<p>For several decades, scholars have read cannibalism in ancient texts as an ethnographic and rhetorical strategy to marginalize, minimize, demonize, or otherwise denigrate ‘the Other.’ It is seen as a characteristic of the wild, the savage, the uncivilized, and the bestial, something one …
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An Anthropophagic Legacy: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropofago in Brazilian Anti-Art and the Works of Cildo Meireles
… Oswald's theory of "cultural cannibalism," or Anthropophagy, has since been reinterpreted to serve various purposes in Brazilian art. In the early 1960s Anthropophagy was important to Neo-Concretists, who shifted the focus of the artwork to the viewer's body. The theory was then revived by the …
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Consuming Brazil: Afro Brazilian Religion as a Base for Actor Training
… process. I frame this study with two metaphors: anthropophagy, the notion of cannibalizing or consuming one culture by another; and, more specifically, the digestive tract. The anthropophagy movement in Brazil framed the country's thought throughout much of the 20th century; the digestive tract …
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To eat or not to eat: an ethical analysis of cannibalism through a bioethical framework
Cannibalism, or anthropophagy, has been dubbed the “ultimate taboo” within our current society even though there is significant evidence supporting that this act has been an integral part of human culture for over thousands of years. This is in part due to the subliminal teachings in literature …
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Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
… in order to examine how the central concepts of anthropophagy, geometric abstraction, and the political came to characterize the art of the region. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this work traces a local genealogy, thus offering a different starting point for understanding …
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Little world/mundinho: an 'antropofagic' and autobiographic performance (uma performance antropofagica e autobiografica)
… and language. And following Oswald de Andrade’s 'anthropophagy', it proposes and enacts the cannibalising of the 'foreign(er)', the digestion of foreign stereotypes to produce new identities. The thesis component of the project will provide a first person autobiographical and autoethnographic …
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Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory
… I use the concept of <em>Antropofagia</em>. Anthropophagy was a seminal Brazilian cultural movement that, through the works of artists such as Oswald de Andrade Tarsila do Amaral and Flávio de Carvalho, proposed cultural and metaphorical cannibalism, putting together European avant-garde …
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Reflexões sobre conhecimento, poder, educação e antropofagia: o inesperado talvez
Nas últimas décadas, o fazer científico tem suscitado uma série de questionamentos, que dizem respeito a quais diretrizes o mesmo deve seguir ou abandonar. Na busca de aprofundar essa discussão, estar-se-á evidenciando algumas reflexões em torno das problemáticas contemporâneas sobre o fazer …