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- Title
Lições de Erovocá: estratégicas narrativas do ‘eu’ a partir do ‘outro’.
- Authors
Dos Santos, Maria Cristina
- Abstract
The decade of 1630 was characterized by a turbulent context in the Jesuits reductions on the River Plate. During this period there was the arrest of Erovocá, a native who was characterized in his documents as “cannibal”, who arrived at the reduction of Santa Ana, at the Tape, in 1636. The record, by Joseph Oregio, seems to have been produced while the arrest and questioning of the accused were being carried out, and is impressive due to the violence of the facts narrated. The objective of this essay is to show the potentialities and precautions of the ethno-historical analysis of the documental records which, supported by a more accurate reading of the contributions of contemporary anthropology, intends to comprehend the strategies used in a narrative that uses the ‘other’ to evidence the efficacy of the presence of the ‘self’.
- Subjects
CANNIBALISM; ETHNOHISTORY; ANTHROPOLOGICAL education
- Publication
Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 3, p1095
- ISSN
0101-4064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15448/1980-864X.2016.3.24070