The Purpose Of Eating The Enemy By Eduardo Viveiros De Castro
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And if we are arguing for a resistance within life, how come they have to give death to El Loco after realizing the imminence of the normalization. Do we have to resist within life only by denying the life of the other? Letâs step back for a moment to try to answer this question.
The anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses the cannibal ceremony of the Tupinamba of Brazil, who devour their enemies after war. The question about the purpose of eating the enemy is addressed by Viveiros de Castro: