SWALLOWING AND ANTHROPOPHAGY IN MODERNIST BRAZILIANITY

ARTS AND WAYS OF LIFE

Abstract

This article seeks to reflect on anthropophagy in modernism in Brazil from the perspective of cultural history in relation with the anthropology with the arts. It seeks to articulate swallowing with elaboration as a practice of invention and struggle against colonialities, in ethical, aesthetic and political processes that are ways of life and ways of subjectivizing oneself through relationships with local knowledge in alterities that dialogue with other worlds without succumbing to them. Therefore, the text presents an analysis that operates with the anthropophagy analyzer from a perspective of Brazilianness and modernism. This work has a critical inflection of the nationalist vision and essentialist identities insofar as it asserts singularity as a process of differentiation and molecular revolution in the anticolonial practice of anthropophagic modernism. The final considerations seek to present a conclusion of the cultural practices that operate in the use of events as a historiographical operation and arts of doing in which swallowing is rare, singular and a field of possibility for the anthropophagic elaboration of the Brazils in which we become Brazilians.