Anthropophagic Thought Tropical 'Colouring' and Theoretical Irreverence

Abstract

This article aimsto present the poet, writer and thinker Oswald de Andrade and hisinfluence on the birth and development of the cannibalistic thought. This is a theoretical thinking that has its roots in the Indian culture and in the ritual of eating theenemies bythe Tupinambás tribe. Theideology goes beyond the boundaries of itspractice to transforme itself, after successive theoretical developments, in 1922, in the irreverence of the modernist movement of the Modern Art Week of São Paulo. Born under the focus of critical thinking and social and cultural reflection, this ideology/theoretical thinking proposes the metamorphosis of foreign culture and the restructuring of artistic processes.In the study of cannibalism, while thinking/theoretical concept, I chose to engage the ideaof cultural translation. Two structures of socio-cultural analysis in communion act as an effective contribution to the recognition and understanding of the particularities that define the (re)positioning of the multi and intercultural societies of postcolonial and postmodern times. To seize the combined theoretical sense of cannibalism and cultural translation is aform ofreverence to the figure, thoughtand experience of Oswald de Andrade. More than deepeningthe author’s biography, this article presents a theoretical encounter: cannibalism, cultural translation and multi and intercultural (re)positioning –essential concepts to the recognition of contemporary societies.