Abstract

VACAS MORA, Víctor. BODIES, CORPSES, AND FOOD: CANNIBALISM, COMMENSALISM AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE AMAZON. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2008, n.6, pp.271-291. ISSN 1900-5407.

This article briefy revises the most recent academic discussions about amazonic anthropophagy attempting to frame that practice on a wider background that provides a meaning for the activity of human fesh eating; a semiotic background that carries the discussion beyond the sensible and relocates it among the symbolic forms of social construction. The Amazonic cannibalism works in different levels, making possible a concrete form of build identity, a sociocosmical predation relationships and a specifc way of generate, fortify and keep the kinship and family ties.

Keywords : Cannibalism; Body; Companionattable; Cosmology; Animic Entites.

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