Pensar el lugar del Otro. Colonialismo y metafísica caníbal
2018; Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca; Issue: 28 Linguagem: Espanhol
10.25058/20112742.n28.11
ISSN2011-2742
Autores Tópico(s)Latin American history and culture
ResumoespanolEl articulo estudia la experiencia de la alteridad en las sociedades amerindias del siglo XVI a partir de la antropologia post-estructuralista de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Esto supone desarrollar la hipotesis canibal como clave para una reconceptualizacion del mundo indigena y de la historia americana. Dentro de este contexto, el trabajo analiza distintos aspectos del regimen ontologico indigena: la ritualizacion de la guerra, la presencia del rasgo predatorio en distintas manifestaciones culturales, la representacion del enemigo en el acto canibal, etcetera. Finalmente, se concluye contraponiendo esta metafisica canibal al esencialismo indigena que se deriva del pensamiento decolonial. Proponemos un modelo de comprension del proceso de colonizacion centrado en el devenir intensivo de los cuerpos, lo cual no permite postular identidades transhistoricas. EnglishThis paper examines the experience of alterity in the 16th century Amerindian societies, following Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s post-structuralist anthropology. This involves developing a cannibal hypothesis as a key to reconceptualize the indigenous world and American history. In this context, this work analyses various aspects of the Indigenous ontological regime: the ritualization of war, the presence of the predatory feature indifferent cultural manifestations, the representation of enemy in the cannibal act, etcetera. Finally, a conclusion is reached by putting this cannibal metaphysics in front of indigenous essentialism, as a derivation from decolonial thinking. We will put forward a model to help us understand the colonization process as focused in the intensive becoming of bodies, which allows us to posit trans-historic identities.
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