The Question of Alterity: the Bitter Life of the Guaraní Tupã According to the White Man's Literature and to the Mbyá's Lively Oral Version

For centuries, a part of the cultured world heeded the White man views on the Guaraní thoughts and behavior —those were the exclusive times of Anthropology of the Other. Nowadays there are attempts to do Anthropology of the Other on ourselves. In order to show both sides of this issue, this paper c...

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Autor principal: Ruiz, Irma
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Publicado: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/768
http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/2144
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topic Otherness
Guaraní
Mbyá
Cosmology
Tupã
Alteridad
Guaraní
Mbyá
Cosmología
Tupã
Alteridade
Guarani
Mbyá
Cosmologia
Tupã
spellingShingle Otherness
Guaraní
Mbyá
Cosmology
Tupã
Alteridad
Guaraní
Mbyá
Cosmología
Tupã
Alteridade
Guarani
Mbyá
Cosmologia
Tupã
Ruiz, Irma
The Question of Alterity: the Bitter Life of the Guaraní Tupã According to the White Man's Literature and to the Mbyá's Lively Oral Version
topic_facet Otherness
Guaraní
Mbyá
Cosmology
Tupã
Alteridad
Guaraní
Mbyá
Cosmología
Tupã
Alteridade
Guarani
Mbyá
Cosmologia
Tupã
description For centuries, a part of the cultured world heeded the White man views on the Guaraní thoughts and behavior —those were the exclusive times of Anthropology of the Other. Nowadays there are attempts to do Anthropology of the Other on ourselves. In order to show both sides of this issue, this paper compares the voices of some White scholars who wrote about the Guaraní with some of the Mbyá-guaraní talking about their own and the White man culture. The topic in question is the figure of Tupã , whose name was appropriated by the colonial missionaries to build their monotheistic discourse. In this interplay of alterity, we analyze first the pernicious “literary life” of this character, followed by the voices of those still hurting from this historic event. This confrontation reveals both the biased inconsistencies of some Guaraní writings and strategies to protect their polytheism, and the magnitude of the symbolic violence intrinsic to the Evangelization process.
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title The Question of Alterity: the Bitter Life of the Guaraní Tupã According to the White Man's Literature and to the Mbyá's Lively Oral Version
title_short The Question of Alterity: the Bitter Life of the Guaraní Tupã According to the White Man's Literature and to the Mbyá's Lively Oral Version
title_full The Question of Alterity: the Bitter Life of the Guaraní Tupã According to the White Man's Literature and to the Mbyá's Lively Oral Version
title_fullStr The Question of Alterity: the Bitter Life of the Guaraní Tupã According to the White Man's Literature and to the Mbyá's Lively Oral Version
title_full_unstemmed The Question of Alterity: the Bitter Life of the Guaraní Tupã According to the White Man's Literature and to the Mbyá's Lively Oral Version
title_sort question of alterity: the bitter life of the guaraní tupã according to the white man's literature and to the mbyá's lively oral version
publisher Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas
publishDate 2016
url http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/768
http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/2144
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