When the body opens the world: anthropophagic provocations for the study of religion

Starting from an anthropogenetic point of view that shapes the Modern thought, the paper proposes a provocative discussion between the limits of Western concepts of body and humanity – based upon a fundamental ontology – and the Amerindian perspectivism as a theoretical synthesis. The paper will wor...

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Autores: Simões, Maria Cecília, Lopes, Paulo Henrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:Rever (São Paulo. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/49231
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/rever/article/view/49231
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anthropogenesis
Amerindian perspectivism
Religion
Body
Antropogênese
Perspectivismo ameríndio
Religião
Corpo
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Sumario:Starting from an anthropogenetic point of view that shapes the Modern thought, the paper proposes a provocative discussion between the limits of Western concepts of body and humanity – based upon a fundamental ontology – and the Amerindian perspectivism as a theoretical synthesis. The paper will work with the representativeness of two bodies (Michelangelo’s David and Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami Shaman) and their potential contributions to think about other kindsof humanities, taking the implications of an animist ontology as an (anthropophagic) exercise of decolonization, also for the theoretical-epistemological discussions in the study of religion.