ANTROPOFAGIA

AS VÁRIAS DIMENSÕES ANTROPOLÓGICAS

Abstract

This article approaches the content anthropophagic in the iconographics documents from 16^th and 17^th centuries. We consider understanding the anthropophagic points existing in the representation of the people of Brazil under the perspective of the Visual Anthropology. In this direction, we relate the vision of world from historical apprehension that involves the anthropophagistic concept, such as the visual imaginary current in that period. Thus we articulate the visual dimension between the eurocentrics paradigms and the cutting pictorial production of the Dutch painter Albert Eckhout regarding the subject and the Brazilian indians. When decoding the visual signs, the alterity is discussed and elaborated through of the culturals codes that to come inside the wide range of exotic universe and the anthropophagic New World.